I drank away the stars from the sky Embraced the the absence of light Ate the sun at rise Lost the weight of the world The full moon held my hand When the cataclysm began Torn asunder as oceans rose To take from land our precious homes Frozen ice to be our tombs The life has stilled inside her womb Silence kills where bullets fail Incisions made to terrify No wind left for us to dry We've braced ourselves the best we could To walk amongst the lot we've doomed Our selfish ways to feed our need