The ashes fall from withered trees Bones like leaves Woods and their hollow shells Slowly cease to be The skies declaim their last rite Clouds of misery fold Simple beauty of the end Coming down untold Read from the gospel of the forlorn And lie down to see Earth's thick black blood seeping in A mute collapse is born Breathe the imminent catastrophe Set our shining corpses free We shall finally rip the veil Crumbled universe, cold and stale