Withering Strands

歌詞

Far from the Sun And that frantic dash Billions before it, To Earth, had crashed But in this expanse Where huge trees unraveled A new plant was struggling Where light seldom traveled This small searching stem Glimpsed dawn upon dawn, Dwarfed by gnarled limbs From the day it was born Hope given over To all that is brief Amidst the detritus, Dead leaf upon leaf As its withering strands Arched back towards earth, Above it, a movement - A death to bring birth Rays filtered, then poured As a forefather fell With the passing of giants, The stem could now tell That life would come quickly, And it did, as it gorged Transformed by the day As the fueling light forged Fixated above, The sky its sole purpose, Its oblivious growth Led the insects to surface And small though they were, En masse, they had come To gnaw at its base As it reached for the Sun