King of the Crocus

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The Alpinist arrives, heaving tar, spitting coal, bleaching the seasons.
A withered cloud rides in his wake, the resolve of fire and earth.
A skeletal carcass riding a cold black nimbus and the static of discord, opening sulfured palms it spoke to me in tongues and teeth.

"I am the invader of thrones, and the firstborn child of all men."
Bereft, still bled for breath, the day you caught on, you caught your death.
That your one in, is an out."

Your one in is an out, that anything not saved will be lost.

"I am cut from the cloth that bound and gagged you,
full of more teeth than the weapons you armed to,
this is what it means to be alive.
I am king of the crocus, I consume masses in ivy.
I wring blood from the innocents to nourish my withered roots.
Thus shapeless ambitions align with my crooked spine,
stealing the light from my bones.

O Alpinist, I hunger for thee.
The light consumes you in the sea of trees.
The orchids flourish as the crown of cranes,
pull you into the embrace of my bramble and thorn.

From my throne of ebony, I will beckon the cypress trees.
They burst from you mouth and their wounds become yours.
The promise of gaia has
been paid in full.

And with the ash of your blood, I bless this Land of Gods.
So it has been, and so too it shall be."

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from Among the Cypress, released April 22, 2015

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