1. LIGHT

High lights
Carnal delights
Deadly sin
Shining begins.


2. EARTH

The majestic sweeping mountains
The wide and distant plains
Valleys that wind like serpents o'er the land
Hills rolling away.

Coastlines attacked by the sea
Cliffs worn away
Caves formed arches made collapse
Sand deposited.

Earth

Billions of years gone
Billions of years left.

How much damage can be done in billions of years?

None we'll all be long dead
And the new rulers will be environmentally friendly.


3. AIR

Hissing slowly
Tearing through trees
The freshening lick of the cold morning’s breeze
Caressed by the updraught
Descending in waves
It flitters us by never caring to stay.

It howls in the night and whines through the day
Gathering speed blowing debris away
When pressures then rise it won’t dare to rescind
For the joy spoken of is the buffeting of winds.

Rustling softly
Through the courtyards
It strips off the leaves that come and then go
The winds gust and swirl now
Increasing caprice
Before pressures fall and the winds do then cease.

It howls in the night and whines through the day
Gathering speed blowing debris away
When pressures then rise it won’t dare to rescind
For the joy spoken of is the buffeting of winds.

Hurricanes batter the coastlines of faraway shores
Tornadoes rip apart all that was built
Gales come forth, ripping up trees, trapping the fools
But as they are storms non-sentient they feel no guilt.

It howls in the night and whines through the day
Gathering speed blowing debris away
When pressures then rise it won’t dare to rescind
For the joy spoken of is the buffeting of winds.


4. FIRE

Ashes trickle slowly through
The clenched palm of the hand
That ripped the heart from the breast
Proud happy to have done its work.

Embers now lie in place of this void
Burning slowly seething shedding dim light
Over the blackened hole whence it came
Gradually expending its fuel.

Flames flicker hungrily tasting the air
Trying to sense its next source of fuel
Willing to attempt any means in order
To extend its lifespan and never burn out.

Flashes of orange light cast shadows,
As trees and people are plunged into darkness
With but a single source of light
To keep dangers away.

Burning exerting energy
Feeding slowly expanding
Attempting to grow unchecked
Slithering in vain hopes of catching life.

Fire lies in place of eyes
Insides burning up in pain
Anger boils easily through
At the mere sound of her cries.

Yet death sweet death?
That is torturous in its absence.


5. WATER

The rain drips down from above
Depositing itself on mountains
The cold freezes it stiffly unable to move
Restraining it from reaching the fens.

The sun beats down from the sky
It’s energy warm and delightful
The ice melts upon mountain peaks
It was not quite cold enough to life stifle.

Trickling quickly down the mountain side
The water erodes the soil where it treads
Establishing itself in its own concourse
Winding down through the hillside it threads.

The stream widens and speeds its way
Over rocks and other protrusions
Winding its way down its own valley
Gushing as it does over all obstructions.

Over waterfalls it springs like a valiant scourge
Sweeping all the impurities of life away
Beauteous it thunders like the trampling of hooves
Sending everything that enters it astray.

At last the hills end and the river is swathed in light
Its deep valley stretches over a vast expanse
The birds drink from it and spread their trivial delight
The mayflies are born die and in betwixt dance.

As it stretches out through the long discourse
It encounters a large and strange obstacle
Unable to break through this unforeseen barrier
It instead rushes sideways to remain stable.

The meanders then dominate the landscape around
Sweeping through glades and thickets of trees
Winding its way slowly down through the glen
As it attempts to eventually make its way to the sea.

The levee breaks and sends a crashing tide
Into villages and cities below
Floodwaters rising in the rain that does fall
Showing yet no sign that it’ll slow.

As it nears the end of the land it widens
Into a large and lumbering beast
Filing dutifully past the ports and docks
It merges into the sea in the east.

The estuary tears quickly into the sea
Murky now after the long journey
As it moves slowly past the country it ran through
It stirs not less happy than could be.

The sea works its way north with the wind
Freezing and chilled it there resides
But despite the cold it does not yet rescind
To the winter that in the north doth lie.

As summer approaches it melts from its prison
Free once again to flow wherever it may please
Separating from the ice in a typical schism
It breaks itself away from the icy vestige.

The ocean it resides in now
Filled with fish and other things
And yet still it does not kowtow
To the storms and beasts with wings.

The summer comes in full force
It’s heat immense and heavy
Evaporation occurs en masse
The water is spirited away.

Back to the clouds up high it goes
Stratus cirrus pileus pyrocumulus
Any one of these are chosen
To house the music of the water in trust.


6. ICE

Freezing winds scour the desolate landscape
Travelling along at great speeds
The snow has fallen thickly to the ground
Blinding and obscuring the land.

The chill sweeps through the valleys
Freezing the streams and the lakes
The trees lay lifeless again
No leaves left to plummet to the floor.

Snowy peaks mark ranges
Frozen lakes mark the land
The trees’ bare branches shake
In the wind that sweeps through.

Ice descends
Threatens mortal life
Life cries out
And shatters dies.

Earth bare sinking into a new age
An ice age colder than those before
New masters rise up to reign over all
Black white and orange they snuff out remaining life.

The overlords revealed
Plotting away
Penguins arise
And smite the day.


7. CONTINUUM

Space

Pinpricks of blinding light mark
The location of the faraway stars
Millions blinking, dazzlingly bright
All show how insignificant we are.

The Blackness
The dark
The cold and the breeze
Solar flares erupt and slay thee quickly
The hugeness
The sight
Incomprehensible
Indescribably wondrous to all.

Supernovae tachyons nebula clouds
Full of ceaseless wonders to behold
Pulsars quasars et luciferi shroud
Space too young too old too cold?
Comets planets stars and asteroids
Full of things beauteous and bright
Black holes cosmic rings interstellar typhoid
Ugly buggers that are invisible at night.

Time

Creeping slowly over the horizon
Shadows chased astray by the beams
Of light radiating from the direction
Of the newly risen sun.

Slowly wearily the day draws on
Taking its time to dwindle into dusk
Striving to persecute all night dwellers
The sun sets without a sound.

Time infinite eternal
Ticks away slowly
Ever slower
Slower
Slow
Until it finally stops.

All Lights go out.


8. DARK

Darkness
Swallowing light
Death approaching
Evil.


9. WATER (REMIX)

(Instrumental)