As I Walk Through the Valley

[Guest Xradion]

*Part II of "The Lone Dove"*

 

The shadow suddenly sweeps

Over the valley like the vulture,

Voraciously pursuing its prey.

 

I gaze upwards at faces

Made of sheer rock covered

With dirt as red

As my ancestors’ blood.

 

And I see the physiognomy

Of familiar faces fall

To the silent shadow creature.

 

The valley is cold now.

And arctic winds wind their

Way down into the cracks

And crevices of the cold earth.

 

Time stands still…

…Or so it would seem

In this dreamlike state

Where white water moves

Like newfallen snow.

 

Now nothing moves

But the wind and I,

Wondering when the world

Unfurled the schemes

Of pipe dreams of another life.

 

And the valley is pure,

Crystalline, structured, ordered.

Like an exhibit behind

Museum glass, filled with

Dead things of the past.

 

And I walk on past

The valley, draped in

Shadow, longing to return

To the chaos of life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Xradion,

The Horny Druid,

Scholar of the Ancient Arts,

Holder of the Eye of Odin.

 

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."

-Wallace Stevens

 

"When at home, do as the Homans do." –Xradion

 

 

 

Edited by: Xradion at: 5/3/02 2:21:37 pm

[reverie]

The tone of cycle grows much stronger than Part II... I like how he somehow manages to encapsulate the experience of dying and what follows after...

 

A not so simple task, but he's done it rather well, i think...

 

 

Part I

Lone Dove

 

Part III

Metempschosis

 

rev...

Edited December 27, 2004 by reverie