rain {starblossoms}

rain {starblossoms}
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tonight it will rain starblossoms of fire, and they will call
upon altars dedicated to the three-fold law:
back upon you in terrible madness
and in stern retribution
if you fall

there was a time when thunder brought promises of rain
and life: the sacred dream of sleeping seed, a blessing
to each blade of grass; and we danced
a joyous celebration under
abundant skies

and we come gladly, naked in nativity, baskets, cornucopias
teeming with vitality; spring thaw, burst rivers proclaiming
the absence of war, famine, and the pestilence
of human misery swimming
for the shore

we had nothing to fear from the skies, but now there's a roar
from different thunder: of bronze skies splitting open,
raining death from strange storms
coming to scorch our patch
of Eden

tonight it will rain starblossoms from an unearthly sky;
tomorrow we will fall to the ground and weep
to have found eternal song; we will pray,
pray in devotion and sleep
the peaceful sleep


© Jason Morales & sleepypurplepiglet