The Bounteus Dearth Lyrics

Another vision fades to bare the vestiges of now
Wantonly inflicted with the crassness of the inevitable
The soil holds memories like gangrene
Turbid creeks murmur of violent loss
Of days of glass grazed by absence

They spoke of closure
As if to soothe whatever would no longer rest submersed
Roaring exposure
Cascades through livid furrows like thrashing spasms of thirst

Still the cracks bleed black on sheets of pearly frost
Corrosion whispers brownish staves across faces and hands
Pale as the cheek of morning that weighed down on cold branches
When silence drowned the citadels and shattered cycles pierced the veins of time

What then will affront our aching stares?
What fresh shame will meet the naked light?
Shivering bones respond to what this hour declares
Throughout the breathless voids of white

Sharp glimpses loom like voices out of the fog
Mere fading marks for wordless winds to flog
Not a sound dares to herald the conclusion
The hands of balance stroke the sepulcher of profusion
A hushed crepuscule paces out the ashen fields
No longer warmed by footsteps, a shrine of oblivion
The sickly whiff of decaying petals ruptures the deathlike veils
Pathways vanish like drying streams
Into the mute delirium of rust-tinted leaves
A stately testimony for those never to know