Cinderbound

Greed circles slow on cold and patient wings It counts the world in numbers, not in breath It trades the soil for the weight of things And signs its name on every form of death Destruction walks and drains the fields to bone It turns the skies to ash and lightless shade It steals the green from every root and stone And life folds shut beneath its ashen fade All things erased beneath the void Every last hope flayed, stripped, destroyed No voice remains to haunt the air No shadow moves; we looked elsewhere Decay crawls slow through what our hands unmade It feeds on smog grown fat from human greed It stalks the woods where every vein has frayed And drinks the seas we drained beyond all need War marches blind, devouring every plea It shapes the earth with grave, funereal hands It hums a tune of final silences And buries light beneath its barren sands All things erased beneath the void Every last hope flayed, stripped, destroyed No voice remains to haunt the air No shadow moves; we chose not to care The Nothing stands where forests used to kneel It guards the hush no pulse will ever break It waits unmoved, where light itself won't heal A vacant throne no living spark will take All things entombed beneath the void Every last hope flayed, stripped, destroyed No voice remains to haunt the air No shadow moves; we knew, and we stood there