Powerful creature
forsaken by strength,
fell from the golden
cathedrals divine,
torn apart from inside
by armored claws—
sharp as lies spilled
from the splitting beak.

Blood and bones
seep into ashen earth,
that whose trembling lungs
consume divinity
until bursting forth
an impossible vitality,
twisting its way through
the rotting corpses.

Tear flesh from the carcass.

Let the heart become the lion,
the wings become the eagle,
the soul become the flame.
To take chase, take flight,
take life.

Split through the sky,
reign decay like a storm
down to the core—
and shatter the skin
until nothing of old
is left behind.