An Altar of Limbs

Ash covers everything
 Black clouds blot out the sun
 Drowned are the memories
 Scorched remains of what once was
 Eternal darkness
 No guiding light
 Ethereal wind picks up
 Sparks drift through the night
 Dive into oblivion
 Ageless desolation
 Plunge into obscurity
 Relentless solitude
 I'll live one thousand years
 Not measured in time
 But in wisdom
 To learn what I can know
 And leave the rest up to my God
 When I am done
 I will lay down
 Beneath the canopy
 And watch as my body falls
 With the Earth
 I carve my sign into every tree
 With force, with precision, with purpose
 Neon aurora covers half the twilight sky
 A gift from heaven to light my way
 At the roots of the tallest tree
 Gnarled hands build an altar of limbs
 The alder torch weighs heavy in my hand
 Ignite the final flame of man