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To Wither in Pale Ethos

from Adamah Tenebrae by Rothko Chapel

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Hidden in the gaps of reason
Beyond the trepidation of divinity
This culture procured
From a conflict of a world-for-us and a world-without-us
bathed in devotion but also logic
Unable, unprepared to penetrate the world-in-itself
Hidden in the gaps of reason
To conceal a vast nothingness

Let this day be seized by darkness
this womb, O earth, trembles – purges
into a native hue of resolution
Thoughts spat out to expire
in the dust of this planet
let this day be driven by sacrifice
To remedy our lowly presence

Stillbirth: infants to the absolute

we thirst for your history
to hath perished in the wake of life
as we bear this scorching crown of grace
God’s in the grave, shadow in the court
God’s in the grave, shadow in the court
forever under the cloister star

It’s far too late to take that spear
Man, a child, conceived upon this planet
to wither in pale ethos

Culture flames can only burn so bright
Soon snuffed, as with the sun
And we freeze, crack, and break
Hath we not taken form, sprouted limb, produced thought
…merely to wither in pale ethos?

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from Adamah Tenebrae, released July 6, 2015

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