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Evolution of Song by Tacita
Runner Up for April 2014
Several singing voices meet, formed to make my heart's blood beat.
Mother known of shadow born, beloved though her mind was torn,
Father lost of fleeting dreams, soft composure rent in screams,
Terror uncle wrapped in frost, within the Silence never lost,
Mentor uncle brave and strong, who in our eyes can do no wrong,
Firstborn daughter wreathed in flame, your heart the world shall never tame,
Siren sister, marriage-bound, a better friend was never found,
Winged soul of shadow flies, from purest love of glowing eyes,
All in His Silence ever kept, devotion from my heartstrings wept.
Mother known of shadow born, beloved though her mind was torn,
Father lost of fleeting dreams, soft composure rent in screams,
Terror uncle wrapped in frost, within the Silence never lost,
Mentor uncle brave and strong, who in our eyes can do no wrong,
Firstborn daughter wreathed in flame, your heart the world shall never tame,
Siren sister, marriage-bound, a better friend was never found,
Winged soul of shadow flies, from purest love of glowing eyes,
All in His Silence ever kept, devotion from my heartstrings wept.
--
Shadow threads of tendrils black, pull my heart and push it back:
This winged soul of shadow flies, from purest love of glowing eyes
To dancing flames in crimson rent, protection's bearing never spent -
Whilst shining moon above takes flight, retreating from the ebon's might.
And thus enshrouded in His gaze, we wander through the dizzying maze
Of love and life and duty known, all doubt thus from our conscience flown.
As umbral fathers stand their guard, their posture proud and gazes hard
Yet iced in winter's purest love, defending presence from above.
All in His Silence ever kept, devotion from my heartstrings wept.
This winged soul of shadow flies, from purest love of glowing eyes
To dancing flames in crimson rent, protection's bearing never spent -
Whilst shining moon above takes flight, retreating from the ebon's might.
And thus enshrouded in His gaze, we wander through the dizzying maze
Of love and life and duty known, all doubt thus from our conscience flown.
As umbral fathers stand their guard, their posture proud and gazes hard
Yet iced in winter's purest love, defending presence from above.
All in His Silence ever kept, devotion from my heartstrings wept.
--
Hope wrought in possibilities made tangible by blood
soaked hands that brush across the cheek with lover's cool caress
of winter's cruellest weapon, all emotion to devour
your heart with darkest shadows wrapped around it like a cage
of thorns, constricting ever more until the crimson rushing
river steeped in every feeling that you push beneath the surface
cracks and breaks beneath the damning weight of his still glowing eyes
staring deep into your soul with the amalgam in your voice
rising in the song of death that calls you to be born again.
soaked hands that brush across the cheek with lover's cool caress
of winter's cruellest weapon, all emotion to devour
your heart with darkest shadows wrapped around it like a cage
of thorns, constricting ever more until the crimson rushing
river steeped in every feeling that you push beneath the surface
cracks and breaks beneath the damning weight of his still glowing eyes
staring deep into your soul with the amalgam in your voice
rising in the song of death that calls you to be born again.
--
Ask me what it is like to be sundered in two, and I shall tell you:
I know no pain in this world greater than betrayal of trust.
What was mine to give, he took and cast aside, as if I were nothing.
But here is the truth: I am nothing but that which has been made by others.
Ask me how my pulse beats with only half a heart, and I shall tell you:
It beats to no rhythm but the Drums, the thrum of this beat of shadow.
I am not one, but many, a single piece within a puzzle, Amalgam and Glory,
For there is no rapture greater than His grip around my soul:
You may light me with your fire but in His darkness I am whole.
