Shaman

from Religion of Moonlight by Gwion Iqbal Malik

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lyrics

Everywhere was young once.
A Mohammedan Light
springing eternal.
All the fires of the Earth making man.

Shaman said the great snake
came from the hills.
Laid down in the sun.
Breathed life into the sand.

The early ones said it was Creation
the Great One saw - then breathed out.
That everything felt His breath,
then was.

The Watchmen, burning in the black,
navigated the night.
Phoenicians sailing the sun.
Norsemen on the wilds of war.

They watched the World get old.
Their eyes - like marbles rattling in skulls -
saw the first embers.
The first feet dance in the flames.

Zarathustra came once -
saw Christ - long before the iron-men
nailed Him to the Cross.
The night tried taking Him too.

The demonic tendencies
summoning the darkness -
The Great Rainmaker - and the wind.
But light begets light. Not death.

Neither man nor beast
escapes the Void.
Everyone is born to the Abyss.
And to the Abyss they shall return.

Christ was the doorway through
the madness.
From the fireballs ripping the sky.
And the Moon swallowing the Sun.

credits

from Religion of Moonlight, released December 22, 2021
Music: 'A New Beginning' by Esther Abrami

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Gwion Iqbal Malik Swansea, UK

Gwion Iqbal Malik is Poet In Residence at the Dylan Thomas Birthplace in Swansea, U.K. He is Editor of Frequency House. Influences are Jim Morrison, Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Sufi poetry and Nikos Kavvadias. Prefers a cinematic sound / visual. Dystopian sounds combined with spiritual alchemy. His new poetry collection ‘Enter The Ziggurat’(Frequency House, 2021) is available to buy on Amazon. ... more