Calling forth the ancient spells of nature
I stand upon the rock of life’s beginnings
Casting forth my soul into the heart of the world
I become one with the sages of the world
The birds and the beasts become my family
And I stand at its head
Before me spreads the grimoire of the universe
The spells emblazoned upon its pages
In the motions of the stars
And as one all creatures take up the chant
Invoking these ten thousand spells
Calling up new life

The elephants march across the land

Their footsteps keeping time

Their trumpeting provides the backbone

For this ancient

Eldritch rhyme

Far across the waters

In forests thick and strong

A lonely wolf atop a cliff

Cries forth in ancient song

And all his kin soon join him

Howling neath the moon

And soon in places deep within

Magic starts to bloom

The spiders

In the webs they weave

Are spelling out the words

Of a language strong and old

The thousand years not heard

Then the children of the air

Rise up without a word

And in their songs a spell invoke

Crafting new life with every chord

And for a thousand years I stood

And for a thousand more

My soul was safe within the heart

My body lost forevermore

And in my dreams I saw such things

Creatures from beyond the suns

Had come to see what I had made

To judge what I had done

And so they came

And so they saw what I had made

And so they judged what I had done

They judged it good

And then they went

Back to their land beyond the sun

And so I was left all alone

No more the wiser for what I had done

My spell of life was now complete

The was no more left that must be done

And then I saw

Inside my spell

A hole

Where nothing sung

And then I saw what must be done

The spell of life

It was alive

And was meant to roam

It was not meant to be confined

At the will of a single mind

And so into my spell

A new creature I spun

One that had the will to live

The mind to know

And with their voice

A song that must be sung

I turned them lose

Upon the earth

Where I once walked alone

And they began to spread and build

A nation had begun

Then the spell of life

That for eons I had sung alone

Could finally become complete

Its true power finally known

And so I looked out upon my spell

And I judged it complete

And I left the human race

To stand upon its own two feet