Bring out your dead



Call of the carrion crow

Civilized man had no friend

Whale of the silent sea

The ocean is yours

They've left it empty



Hawk and the emerald dove

Soar and sail on wings above

Across halcyon streams

To a place where

Madmen once would dream



Cast your senses to another world

Back a millennia, another time when

Savage squatters remade the earth



And Gaia screamed

As she was raped

Then after, thereafter

She took revenge



Rusting towers, roots spreading

Asphalt cracking under live oak

Vines entangle the shells

They once called their homes



Termination, billions composted

Germination, merged cadavers into peat

Resurrection, food for the earthworms

Fertilizing dead sward in turn



Solitude, sacrosanct as Gaia speaks

Through whip-poor-wills at first daybreak



Propagation, feces and flesh fructify

Sown asunder, corpses blended with the soil

Transmutations, spill forth from Gaia's womb



Life comes screaming, overdue

On a landscape free of man



Beasts of a broken line

Fill the void on silent earth

Heed the carrion call, rebirth