The Carrion Call - Misery Index

Call of the carrion crow, civilized man had no friend

Whale of the silent sea, the ocean is yours, they’ve left it empty

Hawk and the emerald dove, soar and sail on wings above

Across halcyon streams, to a place where madmen once would dream

Cast your senses, to another world

Back a millennia, another time when

Savage squatters, remade the earth

And Gaia screamed

As she was raped

Then after, thereafter, she took revenge

Rusting towers, roots spreading

Asphalt cracking, under live oak

Vines entangle, the shells they once called their homes

Termination, billions composted

Germination, merged cadavers into peat

Resurrection, food for the earthworms

Fertilizing dead sward in turn

Solitude, sacrosanct, as Gaia speaks through whip-poor-wills at first daybreak

Propagation, feces and flesh fructify

Sown asunder, corpses blended with the soil

Transmutations, spill forth from Gaia’s womb

Life comes screaming, overdue, on a landscape free of man

Beasts of a broken line, fill the void on silent earth

Heed the carrion call… rebirth