Dance of Ashes (in original formatt)

I Want Tomorrow - Enya

A storm head builds before me, stretching across the horizon

Nightmarish in measure, infinite in power, feeding on love…

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Breaking around me while I am helpless to escape-

In this dance of ashes.

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Crashing magnificently at my feet, gray dust spews everywhere.

Seeing but not comprehending the wreckage in its wake.

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Unnamable specters of death dart here and there,

Hair fanning out I turn, hands up in defense

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As my world departing all around me, free floats in the sky,

Invisible hands decaying and holy, shred with claw like nails,

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Leaflets, upon which written are my dreams.

It can’t take what is in my soul, that is mine. so I smile

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And turn into the face of fate, looking to the soot darkened sun,

surviving from it. Stubbornly, willfully standing upon my stomping shin.

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Taking solace with partners in fate, others who would fight

In this dance of ashes.

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Desperate humans lost in this monster land seek the sanctuary

A survivors ball held in a charred palace.

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Surrounded by a mist so dense as to comfort weary eyes

Ignore the explosions of the destruction, behind and all around.

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Waltzing upon the remains, we. shoed heels crunching upon,

This land of the past, and of tomorrow, but never of the moment;

That will become clay; That the brave take up and form

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The wise have spoken, have faith! spear handed warriors

Ghostly feet impale earth, onward…defying even death.

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Possess The Spirit, perseverance; and Keep. Going.

With hope, hitting the floor it is sung;

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Filling empty spaces in breathless lungs,

In this dance of ashes.