What I’ve Known (Opal Hearth)

Written while I was listening to “The Unforgiven II” by Metallica. I’m still trying to figure out what it means specifically.

What I’ve Known

By. Silvan

1 Shallows stand around me
2 Raised through the thoughts I manifest to my own gain
3 Nor I think in time or length
4 But rather the measure of my tears that built my sanity
5 A sanity that exists only to smother the Opal’s vicious Hearth
6 A flame that resists its inner heat, calling to the stones around to take its tongue and leave
7 Divide its nimble body into the realm surrounding
8 Only then will it grow weary in its quest for query


9 In weakness thoughts hither
10 Thoughts wander in circles
11 They greet outstretched hands of yore
12 But only to pass
13 Gripping onto smoke
14 coal dust hallow
15 Onto all that should be seen by the eyes of the bricks
16 The mortar connecting the flames to the Hearth
17 The Hearth of the Opal’s vicious
18 the Hearth smothered in my tears


19 It’s a cold place
20 The kind frozen in the serenity of broken repertoire
21 Chilling the heart and evaporating dread
22 The flame was not warm after all
23 ‘Twas a slack
24 ‘Twas always cold
25 Dispersal fulfilled its will
26 It’s absence allowed the polar expanse
27 Resistance was its measure
28 Not one of time nor length
29 Only the tears of its own sanity
30 A sanity stronger than all else
31 One that defied its purpose
32 The sanity of the Opal Hearth

Author's Note

Ignore grammar. I’d love to hear interpretations!