Shadow Duet

Voice of the shadow of beauty - friden

Voice of the shadow of darkness - sundin

Shadows play - in my wilderness'

Mindscape they seek

One spiteful and wicked

One humble and meek

A windswept pale landscape

Of edified thought

Two frictional forces

A triad have brought

Woven within me, the aerial mist sink falling

Slowly traversing the atmosphere calling

A soft breeze whispers slowly

In the valley in my mind

And its breath, both foul and holy

Is like the deer to a dying hind

Wordless - yet in soul so true

Nameless - yet it lives in you

Shapeless - like the purity of pain

Lawful - when all fear is slain

One shadow of beauty, caressing the flowers

The paleness of winter reflects in her eyes

Deity of stardom, enticer of stardoom

Maternal - eternal, blinded by visions

Serenity fades with the darkening of skies

Of sunlight nocturnal

One shadow of darkness, a shade of deep hate

A wanderer's spectre with fury ablaze

In sheets of sharp silver laid youthful to die

Reborn into vengeance, dark flames dance in grace

Dark flames dance in grace

The grace of storms

One shadow of beauty

One shadow of darkness

Sailing free on the seas within my mind

Surging dark oceans - perpetual waters

Creator of life and reclaimer of souls

Mother ocean!

Watching the deep fjords uneasily moving

Whipping the white waves towards the cold air

Rising like swans in a sacred, sudden motion

A cascade of lost feathers adrift on the sea

Hark!

A serenade in the tongue of the wind

The sight of centuries, so sonorous in the bower

Hovering further athwart a leafy cower

A shelter for those whose time's wind make them wither

And therefore they chose to guide this time-wind hither

Alas, in tune with the tide of time

I was

But I'm not

Nor I'll be with its pride

Yes, aeons have flown

But more is to come

For I know time

A friend I greet with open arms

A brotherhood of deadly harm

And joy

But time is not eternal, their life-stars not immortal

Setting souls can never pass through the pearly portal

No bliss be given

Nor joy

Flowing down the gates of hell

Fire!

I cry for you

Don't spill your tears for me

But for your kit and kin

My scions of light?

Depraved of the lust and the treasure of pleasure

Which is fuel of life and glory

Silent your dark desires within entirety's light

Solitude

Sanctity

Sanctuary

Sanctum

Tranquillity

Hear me

You who hold the fate of stars in hand

Before creation's eye I stand

My soul set free in summerland!

Mighty the strands of the universe

A chaosvoid's tomb of dead worlds

Hark! What?

Divinity flows in your heart

Cat it alight - the seed of all art

Slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind

Silent, your fool!

Thine words are untrue

Remember endymion's crestfallen tears

Serene art the gods, yet pain is their way

He touched by the heavens, his hellfire nears

Free now your heavenly body of air!

Come bathe in the rays of the all-seeing one

Holding the fate of all life in both hands

Breathing new life-force like goldmade from sand

My winged steed of moonlight

Black stallion of thunder

We rode above the greenish earth

And tore the green asunder

But what you left bleeding

Destroyed a soulforsaken world

And your deeds of sharp silver

Decoyed a mindforsaken herd

A duet of shadows, a duet of thoughts

Of beings we feed with the dust of our thoughts

Residing within us, the twofold wheel of life

Of insight created: A triad of jewels

(A thin leaf of the life-tree's truth)