Lost secrets of the earth
And reticence from birth
Dark sediments and creeping strain
Our negligence conveys
A function of malaise
That overprints our shrouded pain
But rising from the mantle
Braided phantoms beckoning asternal
They speak with tongues twisted
In words we can't perceive
The flood waters abate, leviathans in wait
Their hulking forms of rife despair
A monument to this: the damage we dismissed
The cenotaphs of scars we bear
Rising tides raise all ships and yet provide
An upwelling that dredges bones
Our violent past and pride enthroned
The secrets that we drowned
Lashing masses from the fragments of a bygone generation
Twisted forms in murky waters sway with spellbound aberration
Overgrown with crowns and coral shrouds that stifle what was missed
Wreaths of baseless accusations decorate and bind our wrists
Their names may be unknown
But deep down in our bones
They haunt our nights and plague our days
Once we pay them mind
They detach and resign
To float amidst the waves
As peninsular graves
In discordant chorus, they cry out
Their words are alien and shrill
Beneath the surface, we discern
The ancient dialect they trill
You give us form when you give in
Armed with our reprieve
Denying them the ease
To lurk unshrouded marrow deep
Descending to the mantle
Braided phantoms reckoning eternal
They speak with tongues twisted
In words we now perceive
The flood waters abate, leviathans in wait
Their hulking forms of rife despair
A monument to this: the damage we dismissed
The cenotaphs of scars we bear
Rising tides raise all ships and yet provide
An upwelling that dredges bones
Our violent past and pride enthroned
The secrets that we drowned
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