I've wanted to hide there
And walk those cobbled streets
Deep down there below
Only now though
Have I realized the desire
Is that of a coward
Someone who wishes
To veil themselves
In faint darkness
Just enough so they can see
But not themselves be seen
There is a simple difference
Between someone who is outside
And someone who wants to hide
Remaining themselves unseen

I've learned who I am
So painfully slow
That the anxiety in my chest
Had a chance to grow
And I know,
I know
I've got a ways to go
So take my hand
Just let me show
To you, who I am

Stone Temples
Layered and sprawling
Labyrinthine construct
Above as is below
Pools and sunken statues
Of gods that never were
Yet may be in time
Beneath these pools
Delved far deeper
Lie unknown crypts
Dread, forsaken
And there entrenched
Does one so ancient lie
Willingly wandering
Those transitory lands
Of waking dreams
And sleeping realities

Hear them gently now
Float upon unbroken waves
The inclinations
Of emotion not yet realized
They exist here
Outside of time
Sent forward or back
By unknown means
In the hopes
They they may find
One separated
By more than simple space

Look to those guardian statues
Towering at the edge of all things

Young one I ask you
What guardians do you know
That face that which they guard
Instead of the threats that face them?

I tell you the truth
Those guardians are not our own
No, they guard what lies beyond

From us

I'll be here again with you
Soon and forever
For the Earth is ours
And always will be
Indeed we will walk
Together once more
Beneath a new sun
That will not set or fade

The drowned keep
The bones below
Who they once were
I do not know
But I pray the seas
Do not recede
To reveal those bones
And their dark deeds