The Carrion Call

Bring out your dead
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 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
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 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
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 Rusting towers, roots spreading
 Asphalt cracking under live oak
 Vines entangle the shells
 They once called their homes
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 Termination, billions composted
 Germination, merged cadavers into peat
 Resurrection, food for the earthworms
 Fertilizing dead sward in turn
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 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
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 Life comes screaming, overdue
 On a landscape free of man
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 Beasts of a broken line
 Fill the void on silent earth
 Heed the carrion call, rebirth