Forsake the Morrow

A granite tribute
Memorial to the proud
Topples to the earth
'neath the waste of the flock

"All oe'r which
E'er toiled our hands
Infected
With blight and disease"

Underfoot lie pieces
Lie fragments
Lie memories of glory
That fade with the dusk

"Gaze upon them
Writhing and bleating
Thralls without masters
That wallow in filth"

And now must we see
In hard, white light
What burying our heads past the neck
Has here wrought

And now must we swim
In tides of shame
For even our very same blood
Has here erred

For this we shall no more stand

"Man your brands
While they yet smoulder here
Man your brands
And touch them to the air
Raze the first
Of these bastions base and foul
Raze them
And forsake the morrow's heirs"

The resolution
Erupts through the lines
"purification
Through fire alone

Forward's path
That we must now travel
Is paved with the charred bones
Of cattle and sheep"

Dignity
Now hereby restored
Will be won at cost
Greater than aught else

"No place here has remorse
Has regret
Has pity
No: we crave only victory"

And now let us burn
To ashes and dust
Those things that would have us
To hang low our heads

And now shall we look
Toward standing atop
The piles of rubble
Which will mean their end

For this we shall no more stand

"Man your brands
While they yet smoulder here
Man your brands
And touch them to the air!
Raze the first
Of these bastions base and foul
Raze them
And forsake the morrow's heirs!

All triumphs of worth are hardly won
Renaissance is only ever the first
Judgement comes from us, the bearers of swords
Sharpen then your blade and spare it not

Immolate the other
We number but few but there's strength in our numbers
Resignation never
Sufficed to cleanse by flame such wreckage as this

We are the arsonists
And we hold the keys to redemption

At last we've arrived at the time to turn speech into act"

For this we shall no more stand

"Man your brands
While they yet smoulder here
Man your brands
And touch them to the air
Raze the first
Of these bastions base and foul
Raze them
And forsake the morrow's heirs"