Lost Time
(from the story Lost Time)

Flames over the world
Truth to be disease
And all the while time is lost
Are you to be released.

We pray to you oblivion
The world is washed anew
Through and through rebuilt for you
And never known as changed.

         Sleet and Rain and all fall down
         Soaking deep into the ground
         Far beneath and through the mud
         Death be bold and river run.

Nature's rose and petal
Are perfect in their way
But in the end The Seer bends
And wishes them away.

Killing is the hardest
Blood traces will be left
And poisoned blood will set minds numb
To changes wrought for best.

         Sleet and Rain and all fall down
         Soaking deep into the ground
         Far beneath and through the mud
         Death be bold and river run.

Protection to the Rain Maker
Who gives nocturnal sun
We catch The Keep who hide away
We keep our sheep at peaceful bay.

Forget, small child
Your one true birth
Let the truth die in the flames:
Forget the rain that washed away.

         Sleet and Rain and all fall down
         Soaking deep into the ground
         Far beneath and through the mud
         Death be bold and river run.

~Micaella, March 2001