Perpetual day or night
Everlasting rain or drought
Eternal struggle or peace
Until words cease
Between infinite men and gods
Between partisan young and old
Between ultimate right and wrong
For each is strong.
Let calendar be as record
Let monument be as witness
Let history here determine
Which shall win.
Then the sky hurled its lightning
Then the sea roared its thunder
Then the earth reared its fire
To show their ire
At the vanity of the ego
At the rashness of the sower
At the folly of the dreamer
And redeemer
Who would thus destroy the sun
Who would thus defy the flood
Who would thus pollute the air
And showed him there
The blinding vision of the truth
The deafening echoes of the damned
The crashing madness of the plan
That he began.
And when he saw the faces
And when he heard the weeping
And when he knew the sickness
That men possess
As mortal children of ambition
As transient strangers of desire
As fatal victims of perfection
Released by none
From the essence of the grape
From the music of the reed
From the incense of the bowl
The creature stole