The Perpetual, Filthy Starlight

from The Eternal, Unrelenting Daylight by The Water Witch

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The smoke ascends to a darkening cloud.
The marshland slowly torn and razed.
Billowing uphill, blowing grey rings.
The cloud grew heavy, it grew weary.

Until one day it sang its ashen verse,
Over the perpetual, filthy starlight.
All hail our cloying grey shroud.
The soft rain upon our brow.

An old giant Oak was suddenly stirred.
It shook off the fallen ash as it stretched its arms.
Awoken from a thousand year slumber,
It cast its old eyes upon the scene.

The giant Oak arched upwards and inhaled the cloud,
then retched its grey sadness down into a cave.
It crawled into the darkness and carefully shaped it over many years.

He sucked in all the poison that dwelt within the aearth.
The scourge of the grassland, of the mire and of the bog,
Burden of the glistening glade, the sunlit forest.
He moulded it into a warhead.

The strongarmed giant emerged from the cave.
He swung thrice, lunged and projected it into the sky.
There the terrible dagger rose above the marshland.
It sailed through the air and pierced the cloud.

The giant then watched as it arced down towards the place of men.

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from The Eternal, Unrelenting Daylight, released October 15, 2021

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The Water Witch West Yorkshire, UK

Featuring members of A Forest of Stars, The Water Witch is a loose thread, slowly unwoven.
It is a collection of enamations of power from the earth,a paean to the woodland and a repudiation of pseudo-science and quackery.

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