The Smoke Of Many Fires-Be'lakor

[00:08.37] [01:58.03] The river had brought with it much that day [02:04.50] From driftwood to blood from the ember [02:11.27] Some things were hidden while others were seen [02:18.32] Yet the man somehow could not remember [02:25.92] [02:40.38] Having ambled away from the water's banks to return to his tribe and their lights [02:46.40] He soon found a failing of flesh, and of mind they were no longer robust or bright [02:51.98] [02:53.63] What he could not have seen was the sickness upstream [03:01.37] Those abandoned remains of the wasted [03:07.16] [03:15.31] What he could not have seen was the sickness upstream [03:22.06] Those abandoned remains of the wasted [03:26.48] What he could not have known [03:32.13] Was the blight of the bone [03:37.75] In each ebb and each flow he had tasted [03:49.19] [04:00.36] Dawn found him ailing delirium rife [04:05.45] Those he loved feared his illness would wander [04:12.48] With time wearing thin, his young eyes clouded in [04:19.47] As the odor of smoke became stronger [04:25.36] [04:46.84] It was then that he heard the sharp crackle of torches [04:52.08] Carried past him by men from his clan [04:57.48] A panic cut through all the life that he knew [05:02.60] It was over before it began [05:06.94] [05:07.61] Rope looped his wrists [05:13.02] And held tight to his veins [05:18.29] As beside him [05:23.42] His relatives sagged [05:28.26] [05:39.05] And with tears in their eyes [05:44.07] Through confusion and cries [05:49.49] Out towards the wild flames he was dragged [05:59.01] [05:59.65] Like billions before him regardless of form [06:05.15] It ended as chance had decided [06:10.40] So briefly contained an inferno's refrain [06:15.65] Having powered and angered and guided [06:42.01] [08:06.89] At the heart of the blaze awareness dissolved [08:15.04] Light ascended devoid of desire [08:20.51] From a trail intertwined life and death strewn behind [08:28.44] To the stars it returned from the fire [08:38.95]