Void in Virgo (The Nature of Sacrifice) - Kayo Dot

A forest of treetops

Bends their neck before you

The river sharp and wild

Straightened its course

Strange eyes peer out

From beneath a weeping willow

From doors high in the trunks

Of the mightiest pines

They watch the hills part ways

To ease your passage

The breeze to blow back

Against the ridge and the elms

A gathering by the pathway

Of oaks as old as age

A million creatures watching

As she slips through the forest

Her eyes could mak the world fall on its sword

Between the ross that spread themselves around her

Beneath the boughs that swept up to shade her

A million creatures watched as her tears filled the ocean

She lay her down at the top of the mountain

And was nailed upon the quarters

She lay her down upon a stone

And suffered the stroke

Copper knife

Give of life

Life and death

The honey of her breath

It does not grow stale

Only cold in its season

Her brilliance subjugated the downfall of the tyranny of men

The corpse-lords gnawing at their shadows

The dead men tearing this sick world apart

Let them gloat and in their greed

The trodden die

She lays between the Four Rivers

And listens to their sweet song

While the world churns and washes away

To a dark corner of her All

She listens to the sweet song of Rivers

Naked with the stars rising up to embrace her

She bleeds upon a stone and laughs

She lay her down at the top of the mountain

And was nailed upon the quarters

She lay her down upon a stone

And suffered the stroke

Copper knife

Give of life

Life and death

The honey of her breath