PART 1 There was a sudden burst of light One grabbed his pen to write How it shined through the black of night This brilliant orb so bright Sub-create! A mortal yet strives in his fallen state Blessed is he Who hears yet the strains of the song eternal Maker of myth with your rhyme you weave A tapestry of tales untold in recorded time And though the shadows draw near He writes as if he sees the world bathed all in sunlight Can he keep the fear at bay In hope of day eternal He's dreamt of a paradise Ruled by a thing infernal Sub-create! A mortal yet strives in his fallen state He fills his world with monsters They hide round each corner Plotting wickedness, wreck and ruin He fills his world with monsters For monsters filled his world Maker of myth, shaper of sunlight Into words and thus to worlds Healer of hearts, night will fall Though you sing of the coming dawn For you have seen beyond all sorrow and suffering In such times we tarry Till the breaking of the world When at last the veil is parted PART 2 I saw the light undimmed in ancient glory
Refracting it, it birthed in me a story I wrote of kings and queens I wrote of things unseen Of castles never dreamed Whose towers ever gleamed For that is where my heart led me And ever just ahead I saw that brilliant star It whispered through the night It secrets, pulsing bright Telling me of tales which were my own The more I wrote, the more the star would show me The more I wrote, the less the world would know me It laughs but I care not I wrought what I would wrought The world soon lost its hold on me Some could hear, some could see For those I would persist Stand proudly in their midst The world will pa** away And all its thoughts are dust PART 3 Some see afar unto a place more fair And leave behind that thing we must beware Not in retreat, but triumph Do not be dismayed my brothers Sisters do not tremble so Fix your eyes on yonder star It may burst forth in brightness And you heart be filled You may see a thing wondrous to behold "From mirrored truth the likeness of the True!" Find the truth...