Vibration of Life (DarthLobster x madcat)

Before the first horizon spread Our futures rested in a thread The stars, the marrow, every vein Lay folded in a single grain Then time unfastened every seam And taught existence how to dream Though space divided what it bore Each fragment kept a common core Where do I end and where do you begin Who carved a border beneath the skin Awareness woke in flesh and bone And took each vessel for its own We felt the edges of a face And called that boundary all of space A million windows opened wide Each thought the world was on its side We met the stranger at the gate And let suspicion choose their fate Where do I end and where do you begin Who carved a border beneath the skin The mighty count the heads that bow As though eternity cared how Their banners sanctify a throne That centuries reduce to stone They measure worth by who must kneel As if the conquered couldn't feel Each life extinguished by their hand Was born of what they cannot command I thought the anguish wasn't mine Until I felt its roots entwine That knowledge was not clean or kind It stripped the refuge from my mind Each absence widened into grief Beyond the reach of mere belief Some debts can never be repaid By seeing what our hatred made Where do I end and where do you begin Who carved a border beneath the skin Perhaps the self is only lent To matter learning what it meant All bodies yield their borrowed heat To fields beyond our brief conceit Perhaps the consciousness we keep Is something vast that learned to sleep Until the farthest ages fold Back through the point they couldn't hold Where do I end and where do you begin Who carved a border beneath the skin