Isa - Dark Fortress

Forged by

The frigid abyss of space

My frozen carapace

Wraps planets pole to pole

Underneath

The shroud of my albedo

My prodigious claw rakes the land

And incubates the seas

I sow the land

With earthborn treasures

Green of the vales

Awe of the mountains

Isa

Fallen from the skies

Splendour of all form

The power that drives me

Isa

I sink and crystallize

Bearing gifts for those

Who survive me

Death’s

White shadow

I smother

Volcanoes

Into prisms

Into cathedrals

Those summits

And pastures

So revered

They all are my children

I shear the crust expelled by fire

Create life’s playgrounds

Leaving greatness in my wake

Would-be eternal rock

Is no match for space-clad water

As all the worlds

Will succumb

To the cold

Isa

Fallen from the skies

Splendour of all form

The power that drives me

Isa

I sink and crystallize

Bearing gifts for those

Who survive me

And my caress