Sigil

Sigil

A Poem by Archipelago
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first version, needs some editing

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Who do you think you are?

Standing in the mouth of the cave

Answering your own echoes with the repeated cry

“Lazarus, Lazarus

Come forth from those dark depths”

But no one escaped the cave

Save the echoes

Who do you think you are?

Telling men that there is life beyond the grave

Everything that was, is, and shall be

Fades away, and is swallowed

Into the inescapable cave

From dust we came

And dust is our destination

And from dark nothingness came the dust

And surely nothingness shall follow

What there was before our birth

Awaits us in the end

In the deepest portions of the cave

Into which we must all descend

And when the mountains have been worn to sand

And the cities have been burned to glass

And the plagues have overflowed the graveyards

Like swollen rivers in the rain

And the Moon has left the Earth

And the Sun has burnt to coal

And the seas have frozen over

Still you will be there

Stubbornly alive

Alone beyond the grave

Defiantly enduring

Ignorant and blind

Unwilling or unknowing

Of the fate that awaits us all

Still calling into the cave

“Lazarus, Lazarus”

© 2009 Archipelago


Author's Note

Archipelago
i don't feel like this is really finished, please help me with some modifications. thanks

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