Black Amber

Lost within the man-made forests

The cities do not have a heart

Waiting for the end to start

And burn us from among these stones

The scorching purges of extinction

Will fracture concrete bark

To weep black molten sap,

Solidify to black amber

Look into my eyes and see, here

The world is at a bitter end

The waters of the flood have risen

And swallowed up dry land

Uncounted years hence, washed up

Upon a nameless shore

A murky gemstone beaconing

A vision of our dying world

Nostalgia, oblivion

Remember? I too lived

And of the end I dreamed

Each night like death not sleep

You spoke to me, your voice

Like song above the sea

What did you say to me?

It passed out of all knowing...

Pale distance towards a forgotten dawn

Sealed in amber, deep beneath the sea

See what distant eyes could see

The passage of their time turned stone

Amber - see the dead forest

That stood uncounted years before our birth

The pale dawn that warmed our ancestors

Gleaming through the petrified trees, long fallen

Amber of the murky waters

That pound upon the shore

Edging past the path of sorrow

Into the daylight world

The labyrinth beyond

Has swallowed up some souls

And not the first for sure

But to these goes my song

Heralding the pending darkness here

Gathering to greet the end

Wishes well and re-morse drained

For we shall never cross our paths again.