What are We?
With one long stride, we devour the leagues, all before us fleeting blue, all behind vermillion, worlds enough and stars reddened to dust.
We swell against the dark, crushing time athwart us, a fist thrown in eternity’s face, a blow weightening with every moment, never to fall.
The firmament denied us, we fall, sundering the earth’s very breath before our bow, a dragon’s tail of void and flame drawn in our wake.
Our iron aegis broke itself upon the world and so broke the world. Hatched from steel ruin, we fledge to greet our new and sunless dawn.
Dust to stain the sky, ash to foul the air, winter’s bitter hand to benumb flesh and soul; the harrowed world bleeds forth its vengeance.
We survived, of course, to live now in this garden of doomed giants, of bone cenotaphs, of failed industry and the hubris of the returned.
We swell against the dark, crushing time athwart us, a fist thrown in eternity’s face, a blow weightening with every moment, never to fall.
The firmament denied us, we fall, sundering the earth’s very breath before our bow, a dragon’s tail of void and flame drawn in our wake.
Our iron aegis broke itself upon the world and so broke the world. Hatched from steel ruin, we fledge to greet our new and sunless dawn.
Dust to stain the sky, ash to foul the air, winter’s bitter hand to benumb flesh and soul; the harrowed world bleeds forth its vengeance.
We survived, of course, to live now in this garden of doomed giants, of bone cenotaphs, of failed industry and the hubris of the returned.