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Lost secrets of the earth

And reticence from birth

Dark sediments and creeping strain

Our negligence conveys

A function of malaise

That overprints our shrouded pain

But rising from the mantle

Braided phantoms beckoning asternal

They speak with tongues twisted

In words we can't perceive

The flood waters abate, leviathans in wait

Their hulking forms of rife despair

A monument to this: the damage we dismissed

The cenotaphs of scars we bear

Rising tides raise all ships and yet provide

An upwelling that dredges bones

Our violent past and pride enthroned

The secrets that we drowned

Lashing masses from the fragments of a bygone generation

Twisted forms in murky waters sway with spellbound aberration

Overgrown with crowns and coral shrouds that stifle what was missed

Wreaths of baseless accusations decorate and bind our wrists

Their names may be unknown

But deep down in our bones

They haunt our nights and plague our days

Once we pay them mind

They detach and resign

To float amidst the waves

As peninsular graves

In discordant chorus, they cry out

Their words are alien and shrill

Beneath the surface, we discern

The ancient dialect they trill

You give us form when you give in

Armed with our reprieve

Denying them the ease

To lurk unshrouded marrow deep

Descending to the mantle

Braided phantoms reckoning eternal

They speak with tongues twisted

In words we now perceive

The flood waters abate, leviathans in wait

Their hulking forms of rife despair

A monument to this: the damage we dismissed

The cenotaphs of scars we bear

Rising tides raise all ships and yet provide

An upwelling that dredges bones

Our violent past and pride enthroned

The secrets that we drowned