Withering Strands-Be'lakor

[00:28]Far from the Sun [00:31]And that frantic dash [00:35]Billions before it [00:38]To Earth, had crashed [00:41]But in this expanse [00:44]Where huge trees unraveled [00:47]A new plant was struggling [00:50] Where light seldom traveled [02:21]This small searching stem [02:25]Glimpsed dawn upon dawn [02:29]Dwarfed by gnarled limbs [02:31]From the day it was born [02:37]Hope given over [02:39]To all that is brief [02:44]Amidst the detritus [02:47]Dead leaf upon leaf [03:20]As its withering strands [03:24]Arched back towards earth [03:26]Above it, a movement - [03:32]A death to bring birth [03:35]Rays filtered, then poured [03:37]As a forefather fell [03:41]With the passing of giants [03:47]The stem could now tell [04:25]But in this expanse [04:28]Where huge trees unraveled [04:31]A new plant was struggling [04:34]Where light seldom traveled [05:37]As its withering strands [05:41]Arched back towards earth [05:44]Above it, a movement [05:49]A death to bring birth [08:41]Rays filtered, then poured [08:43]As a forefather fell [08:47]With the passing of giants [08:49]The stem could now tell [08:52]That life would come quickly [08:54]And it did, as it gorged [08:57]Transformed by the day [09:00]As the fueling light forged [09:25]Fixated above [09:29]The sky its sole purpose [09:33.50]Its oblivious growth [09:36]Led the insects to surface [09:41]And small though they were [09:43.50]En masse, they had come [09:47]To gnaw at its base [09:49.50]As it reached for the Sun [10:18]Hope given over [10:21]To all that is brief [10:24.50]Amidst the detritus [10:28]Dead leaf upon leaf