Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon 1. Oracle Moon An eye glances skyward The gaze one with the heavens Entrapped by the cold celestial eye And their distance is transcended "What events have you witnessed? What epic movements have been Conducted before your unyielding stare?" "Gaia has eternally enchanted me With her vibrant enigmas I tug at her liquid heart But resolutely mute she remains" "Oracle Moon Allow me to bathe in your porous honesty And absorb millennia" The barren power (Humored by the supplication) Grants the wish The enthrallment for the communion granted The idle satellite takes the stage And commences its vesperian soliloquy As it enraptures its prey "I have been witness, The sole audience for the round theater Wrapped in white gauze and bathed in blue Within each rock on this tired body Is embedded a concept In each pebble, a thought The ages of wisdom have poured into each crevice As the language of the cosmos expresses itself through me Gaia has eternally enchanted me With her vibrant enigmas I tug at her liquid heart But resolutely mute she remains" "Oracle Moon, Allow me to dive within your worn divisions And gather sempiternity..." "Deny yourself the temptation To decipher the common tongue My invitation would only baffle For my coarse veracity lies beyond your grasp" 2. Citadel Of Dreams When the cerulean sky Is painted over with crimson And the sun descends into the horizon When the moon sings oneiric serenades And we are coaxed into lethargy Its seductive power enchants us And opens the gates... To the Citadel of Dreams The bastion of illusion Engraved with the elaborate Archetypes of wisdom Primordial designs embedded within That inspire mythos Bathed amongst pillars of light Its ivory towers shine like bright stars Submerged in subconscious Within sapphire halls of deep blue We drift and float as we slumber Carried by the tides of languor One by one we extend our minds To receive precious fantasies Infused by the lyre of the muse With the enchantment of obscurity Like delicate snowflakes Melting upon flesh These fragile memories Are dissolved by consciousness (And yet traces remain) The imprints of another world Reached only through the psyche... The Citadel of Dreams 3. Into Infinity [Instrumental] 4. Dissolution Of The Forms The venerable one's Doctrine was crowned upon us Humanity's noontide gain... But the king was a phantasm The crown but a porous withered wreath Upon a tattered grimace Our myopic gaze Of a diaphanous tenet Occluded all thought Of solidity Encircled by the frail cannon Beset by the strength of support The confines of validity Are entrenched in rough soil Traces of the forms Dance on the wall... Unrelenting iron Sleek cold steel Clings to our wrists As a vulnerable child (To the stoic guardian) The dead weight of This permeable helmet Anchors us to the motionless rocks of chaos Reflections of fidelity Distillations of veracity Specters of substantiality (Cavort upon the wall) Must this burden Be bourne unto our backs As the world On Atlas' shoulders? If we were to lose Our grip on the globe Could we laugh As we witnessed it Crash into the stars? The explosion will shower us In the elements of experience Encumber us with the weight Of reality... Yet free us by serving as the lustrous key To our rusted manacles Traces of the forms Dance on the wall In time with flames That provide false warmth 5. Continuum The astral bodies Assembled as one At the call of irrevocable fate The celestial gathering Once more sent forth In a brilliant volley of flame Forging new paths Along the worn landscape of eternity Millions of years are but seconds In the continuum of forever Fallen leaves crumble into dust Fade into the mausoleum Of memories forgotten We have grasped at the cosmic puzzle laid before us Impatient newborns surrounded by dignified giants The scope of our tears Would transform valleys into oceans A feeble attempt to clutch the fragment That lies forever beyond Each event shares with its sisters As all seasons overlap Spatial boundaries superimposed In the unfathomable and infinite Expanse of time Eons of stone dissolve as we wither Leaving no trace of existence Cracks on the faded canvas of history That languishes alone A divine ceremony commencing all Walks upon the frayed path of destruction And the annihilation watches enviously Awaiting its turn once more The weight of centuries Impedes our steps Towards the precipice of eternity As we succumb to unchanging forces of attraction Our attempts to manipulate the tempest prove unsound Yet we trudge onward Rolling our ponderous cargo before us Until time and space caress each other once more A new chapter forever unfolds Before the vacant theater of the stars... Luminous vapor, shining haze Invisible yet ever-present Slowly slips into the past Along the continuum of forever 6. Desert Shadows Within two worlds Wind carries the sand Of a desert of emotions Unto tear stained cheeks Skin seared by the power Of oblivious stars He cries... shedding tears... though none are left They cry... golden tears... diamonds glistening Solace found underneath a palm Brushing the burning void away The jewels of their emotions Are left abandoned in the sand As they face one another In a dimensional confrontation Twin images etched in glass And the backdrop of the cosmos The stars disregard His pain laid flat Against the pane He cries... shedding tears... though none are left They cry... golden tears... vagabonds in the sand The scream echoes silent Within a world forever deaf He sees within the other Reality's reflection surreal And as the bright stars arch The power of the palm grows Extinguishing his silent partner And his phantom world In contrary motion He raises his frame As the other falls... Shattering upon the barren earth's kiss Like a thousand sapphires Reflecting the light of the stars Flung against the night's canopy And his end becomes clear In rippling pools of a desert oasis... Transcend the line drawn in the sand By the remnants of his twin Orphan the sanctity of the palm And eschew the safety of its shadow 7. Twilight Odyssey We traveled towards land unknown Upon the winding path of fate Uncertainty, our companion Understanding, our destination We looked above to the heavens While fire blazed across the sky And seared it a brilliant crimson That quickly faded to gray... Enchanted mist rained down upon us Clouding the path with haze Vertigo sensation rising within As we hopelessly cling to vespers And begin to slip away... Into a vortex of undefined shapes Trying to grasp Some shred of reality A futile endeavor In this dreamlike world Infinity's child surrounds Where the golden chimeras fly As a phantasmagoria unfolds before our eyes As we yield to our invigorated senses The existence we once knew falls away And we spread our wings for the first time With unparalleled abandon We drink in the rich beauty That lies in the forgotten wisdom Of this unearthly realm... It flows into us As we bathe in the twilight glow And the secrets of the universe Are bestowed upon us In a celestial coronation As we rotate as one In harmony with the spheres...