The Bastard Wind

Second waiting, the bastard wind

Left you swaying but held again

So allaying, you'll call to the veil

Where bled you fail

Found you longing for steel and field and cave

But still shackled by rows of endless waves

Will an essence you drown now cast you away

To sand and clay

So a shimmer of wave will strain to the Sun

While deceiving the eye that's lost and won

Where a lesson to burn is fast to decay

In swell and spray

So as endless a dream it seems is lost out of shade

There in shoreless of hold you long to fade

For the cleansing of waves are naught to avail

Where bled you fail

Where bled you fail

Where bled you fail

The lie

Means nothing to the sky

Or veil

The way

Will burn another day

Or fail

This time

In passage you divine

This grail

And climb

From waves in endless line

That pale

The granite lay sunken

As below

The wind that wrought the fire

So below

Soaring ascent in flame

Cinders of victims singed and maimed

Strip the wind to bleed again

Fall below oceanic flame

Naught the strain

That death has claimed

You leave the kill to pain

Deeds that bled away

Where in fairness war's ascension is to stay

There in violence you're mastering decay

You'll feed the beast this way

Where an effigy will climb towards the Sun

There a peak on high will witness what is done

Air to thin and turn before the flames are gone

Carelessly you're burning all there is to one

Share the burden left in cinders by the ton

If nothing's to be done

If nothing's to be done

If nothing's to be done

If nothing's to be won

Strain the shadow and steep in shade

Earth left fallow for steeper grade

Climb once narrow is now the blade

That severs the wind

Calm but quaking on the shroud of the Sun

As it's forsaken and below it's flung

The storm is raging for the past has won

And led by the wings

You're led by the wings

Need led the lie

To deny endless sky

Deeds led below

As above

For the foe