Contrafugue

(Genesis/Requiem)

Breathless

Panting

Moans from deep inside

Life and death eclipsed collide

Blood and water

Flesh is ripping

Drop by drop

The grip is slipping

Faces pale a ghostly white

Lines of pain relax to pliant

Struggling to lift her eyes

Now the child breaks the silence

Screaming with the breath of life

With a sigh she smiles and dies

As welling tears at last escape her eyes

Shadows

Dancing

Lamps are lit inside

Voices chant in rune delight

Ancient lips recite the passage

Fires roar and flicker bright

Cracking coals and glowing ashes

Rushing winds and flowing sashes

Choirs clash against the night

Voice of oceans, seven seasons

Amen seized the keys and kingdoms

Earthen vessels filled with eyes

Spirits rise in cloven tongues of light

Everlasting

Armies clothed in white

In the east a light ignites

Trumpets blare and shake the nations

Sounding every dispensation

Clothed in red, blood-bright as wine

Vials pour, the seal is broken

Books, and eyes, and graves are opened

Flesh and spirit reunite

Saints that died in tribulation

Blast the tide of death, awaken

From the dust assemble live

As thy tombs are now forsaken

Reacquaint with fellows taken

Ancestors embrace their line

Mother, child in sealed relation

Rear their lost in grand equation

In the twinkling of an eye

We are changed from life to life

Alpha and Omega spake then,

“It is done, a new creation”

Love over the pain rewrite

Wiping every tear from every eye