Tempest

The vortex now encloses
A battery of motion
Empathy is abandoned
Exponential growth
Held upon unbound anger
Thrown down with a curse
This power is beyond measure
It wraps around our hope

Waves like mountains fall
Blackness lit by swell and stars
Serpents searching for
Whispers of a mermaids grief

Strange and beautiful
A song of loss and pain untold
A fleeting moment of weightlessness
Between the boiling swell
We listen out to learn of what she longs so dearly for
And hope that it is not for our
Swift impending fall

Blissful order
The tempest recedes
We've broken the surface
Vision and clarity
The storm front rages endless and vast
Diatonic
It's lost in the distant past

Come and look!
There are snow-capped mountains
Looking at us coldly
Over the rucked bedspread of their hills
See the sky!
See the palest washes
Of the painters soft pallet
And the mirror mimic of the sea
Breath is smoke in the crisping air
Crystals shine
In the rising sunshine's stare
Come and look!
There are snow-capped mountains
Looking at us coldly
And soon they will be hidden by the storm

The vortex now encloses
A battery of motion
Waves that hunger for destruction
Waves thirst to devour

Besieged by the horizon
Taunting closeness amidst the squall
We struggle for symbiosis
Dark and unyielding, it claims us all
Besieged by the horizon
Taunting closeness amidst the squall
We fear the inevitable
Feel the cold enfolding, end our suffering

And this is the only time
The only time
That I'll say I love you
And this is the only time
The only time
That I speak of you
Of you
Of you

Between the boiling swell
We listen out to learn of what she longs so dearly for
(What does she want?)
A fleeting moment of weightlessness
Before our lungs are full
Upon the barren reef
Lies our haunting lament
Cold and beautiful