Tyranny of Might

Future’s this, Fate, clasping her fingers tight around time’s neck,

Choking life out of what we all understand to be the normal scheme of things-

We have passed this way before

We know what we saw:

This is the way

The normal scheme of things

 

And for all the grand hoots of bravado and rowdiness,

Time strutting his brackets like peacock’s feathers

We enveloped ourselves in delusions of speed and knowledge,

Refusing to accept truth when it was offered us-

We have passed this way before

We know what we saw:

This is the way

The normal scheme of things

 

Regal in nothingness and let your pride roam free

The words rang in our ears from the first day,

From the first morning; then was the dew of our youth

Burned deep like a cattle’s brand,

Unmistakable

Etched into our minds like a god’s engraving

Your face is ever before me,

Yes! I have you in the lines of my palms

Such were the words should we ever forget

That was a luxury; to forget was a luxury

So we could not accept when it was said to remember not,

To stop the former things and look for new ones,

New schemes,

We have passed this way before

We know what we saw:

This is the way

The normal scheme of things

 

Look into our eyes,

We had the stars painted into our eyes

We were ever expanding with the never-ending universe,

The gods bathed their children in our eyes,

Our rivers full of life,

And knowledge,

And peace:

And all that we saw was peace

We could never leave this ever expanding universe,

Time without borders,

Existence without end

Even when the alarm was sounded,

The noise of war and piercing screams banging on our drums,

We could not

We have passed this way before

We know what we saw:

This is the way:

The normal scheme of things

 

For knowledge of the times will be your greatest strength,

And your swords forged in the deep forges of eternal wisdom

Your feet shod in stone and iron,

Your heart made with speaking earth

Truth for your brother in arms

And all the land will be free again

The tyranny of might finally quelled

One after one a sword went through our necks

 

We have passed this way before

 

We know what we saw

 

This is the way

 

The normal scheme of things