Kindly bent to free us A heart-to-heart farewell My armor begins to rust It forms the scrapyard gates to Hell DNA trapped in ice Absorbed into a fossil site My cheek cells traced To an ancient human figure Hobbit-sized Kindly bent to free us The joy, the sorrow and the pain Life returns to mother dust Aboard we sail to sink one day Beyond mere blood lineage Or a self-transcending simian I rise to taste the dawn And find that love will shine on Evolution Beyond rationality The one solution To turn my head and imitate the sun The one who's always been Has seen much worse than this projection Persecution, kindly bent to free