The Atavistic Forest

From the ancient stones I walk through the shadows
 Orchestrations of life deemed a separate path
 With my hands I embrace the circle of life
 Caressed by spirits once through death
 Haunting silence dwells upon this starlit forest
 Creatures from the dark soon bare witness to the sun
 Condemn those without my whisper by their side
 Release my mind from echoes of madness
 This cold layer of ice shall never thaw
 My dark embrace will never die
 The hourglass of time follows us through the stars
 The howling winds of old carried through the misty trees
 My eyes behold no sign of life
 Staring down to darkness
 Dreams besiege the fallen star among the dead
 We are reclaiming this land
 For the transcending matter
 No more relinquishing worlds
 Calling us to our home
 Fallen stone
 Take my throne
 I am the past
 I am the future
 Lost in my chambers
 Now treading behind
 Falling back to shadows
 Where no light survives
 Drifting realms beneath my surface
 Their seeds conceal an open ocean
 The river's mouth silently opens
 Revealing the atavistic forest
 My hands placed against the fountain
 Endorsing darkness to cast the light away
 Soil from the ground is dying
 No tree shall grow again
 The sound of snowfall
 Forevermore
 The hourglass of time drifts away in the night
 The burning touch of ice
 Frozen
 All the life
 Rising roots to the sky
 Beyond the frozen lakes
 Within the fading woods of the atavistic forest
 Beneath my trees
 Atop my lifeless soil
 Silence
 I bow to you