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The Sun bleeds into the ocean of smoke,

a scar across the earth’s black sin

I claw across the ground with splintered hands,

seeking the marrow of forgotten gods

The river chokes on the ash of the living,

the forest swallows the tongues of the dead.

Every root is a sermon,

Every stone is a grave.

Split my bones beneath the eclipse,

let the insects crown me

This covenant was written in decay

Return to dust, return to nothing

The altar burns with silence and ash,

a throne carved from the jaws of earth

I kneel before thee-

The river chokes on the ash of the living,

the forest swallows the tongues of the dead.

Every root is a sermon,

Every stone is a grave.



This eclipse is eternal.