Wipeout

We see the blood and the feathers
We mourn your loss, your hubris and your fall
Can you even claw your way back up?

You donned the robe of the fire bird

 We have told you before  

To gain flight, you must burn your heart

You soar, but you cannot breathe

 You fly, but you cannot see the earth
There is no one but the frigid stars to keep you company.

A meteor with a golden, fiery tail
Blazing furiously through the unforgiving abyss
How can this truly be what you want?

No longer do you possess humanity
There is no beating heart of flesh in your fiery bosom 

Nothing but rage and metal and the heat of your fury

He had to channel the moon in his veins
To raise the ocean to meet the sky
He drowned the stars in his tears

He forced water into ice, into brittle shards of harm
He already buried one golden eyed princess
He can do it once more, over and over again.

Fire met water in a blaze of steam and rage
Mighty grief and mighty anger
The land is bathed in the rain of a stricken storm

He fell that day, you fell that day
Two souls torn apart
The rain falls, the fire falls, an eulogy of the elements

Now the sky is clear, a pearly blue softened with white
Free from unnatural fire or seas
Yet the emptiness is as unsettling as the silence you left behind.

A millennia later you slumber in the heart of the wild girl
But he still watches from the shadow of the moon
Ever watching, ever waiting, ever weeping

 
They say that the oceans still shake at the sight of fire
For their memory is long and their grudge fierce
One day they will smother the land in their waters
Forever quenching your evil in his arms.