The Carrion Call

Bring out your dead... 

Call of the carrion crow, civilized man had no friend
 Whale of the silent sea, the ocean is yours, they've left it empty
 Hawk and the emerald dove, soar and sail on wings above
 Across halcyon streams, to a place where madmen once would dream 

Cast your senses, to another world
 Back a millennia, another time when
 Savage squatters, remade the earth 

And Gaia screamed
 As she was raped
 Then after, thereafter, she took revenge 

Rusting towers, roots spreading
 Asphalt cracking, under live oak
 Vines entangle, the shells they once called their homes 

Termination, billions composted
 Germination, merged cadavers into peat
 Resurrection, food for the earthworms
 Fertilizing dead sward in turn 

Solitude, sacrosanct, as Gaia speaks through whip-poor-wills at first daybreak 

Propagation, feces and flesh fructify
 Sown asunder, corpses blended with the soil
 Transmutations, spill forth from Gaia's womb 

Life comes screaming, overdue, on a landscape free of man 

Beasts of a broken line, fill the void on silent earth
 Heed the carrion call...rebirth