God's on the side of the Proles

The cry as for a lost first born son has gone up in the twilight.

The cry as of a goddess whose heart has been pierced through with love heralds

the onrushing night.

The crowned head has suffered a mortal blow, who can heal it?

The woods have heard

And in their spring darkness the scream echoes

Causing its beasts to pause

Stirring the blood and sap with memories

Beyond death and rebirth

And nature’s futile return.

The Earth is a Man, and from the beginning till now has labored by the sweat of his brow

in vain

The Earth is a Woman, and from the beginning till now has travailed in childbirth after childbirth

in vain.

In the particularity of one name, all the aeons and stars are set at nought.

To them, to cling to one out of so many billions is nothing.

But to those who have set forth in fealty, all our suns and milky ways are as shattered debris,

Ready to be swept away and cast to the flames to be reforged.

Now we can greet one another, shattering time and space with companionship.

The title beyond any other title returns our syllables to us, and now we stand together under one sky.

In the forest, amid the oncoming gloom, Armetis sings, Artemis, Artemis,

Chanting the praise of dart and spear

Of sovereign victims and masterful slaves.

The arrow is shot, it strikes, and finds its mark,

And we die in joyous pining.

The Imperial scarlet banner, the heart’s delight, dances in the wind

Leaving the trees behinds

Carrying us everywhere amid storms, trumpets, and shadows,

Out of the household life, into the romance of being

Where every god of the nations is found to be nothing

And yet at the same time made a witness to our love.

By the wound we are known,

And each one known in us,

And a world is founded

Ladders upon celestial ladders

Going up and down

Each site of sacrifice a center that can be anywhere,

And nowhere is forgotten, like a dream,

Or else made itself a homeland for all to become most like themselves.

The Heavens have emptied themselves of tears, and only peace remains.

And we must walk side by side till our steps cast up light greater than the moon or sun.

Let us begin for good this time, you and I, for up to now we have done little or nothing.

Let us begin then, you and I, who have always known each other,

From the antechamber of eternity to this present embrace.