Enantiodromia

I have come to bring death, terror, and destruction

Yes, the arkhè of this world is fire

But for all the smoke that rises

Something must also come down

Should their scales be gripped

Should they sneer at the dance around balance

The sentencing from the stars will scream

Death, silence, and oblivion

The wise claim there are, in truth

Many different fires burning with different smoke

Most of them vain and very few divine

I have come to bring death and destruction

For the arkhè of this world truly is fire!

And for all the smoke you see rising

Something will come down on you

Blazing and burning shall it come for you

Smitten sore with wretched wrath

Under the light of burning stars

Three hundred gods say murder all

Behold the arch-fire

Ignited by entire swarms of locusts

Tentacles of war and fire

Just as war is thrice holy

Behold and beware as we join the dance

Light turns into darkness

Lively noise yields to silence

And heat surrenders to the cold

All that was dry

Has now become drenched in liquid

A cosmos within the cosmos

It is mankind, the gods

And all the devils of creation at once

And something else, something new

It’s a power beyond you

Untamed, and growing exponentially

I have come to bring death, and destruction

I have come to bring death, silence, and oblivion

You will be made to remember

The time when mountains were your cathedrals

You will be made to remember

The time when the ocean was your womb

You will be made to remember

The time when fertile soil was holy ground

No matter how high a tower you build from the skulls of fallen foes

No matter the multitudes of cities reduced to rubble

The child of man has already been awakened and fed

The child of man has already been unleashed

And He has come to bring vile death

And He has come to bring ruin

And He has come to bring silence

And He has come to bring an end

And He has come to bring new life

And He has come to bring pure light

And He has come to bring concord

And He has come to bring order