Vested Seed That I Have Sown

Twilight falls on hollowed ground

Beneath the seam of border brown

Was this life a mere simple test

That I had endured and done my best

Beneath the sea of hollowed light

Upon this land of rock and ice

Shall I take thy hand and roll the dice

While others live on grain and rice

Vested seed that I have sown

As I’ve lived, I have grown

For in my heart, I have my home

Within this waste land where I now roam

Within the vessel of my thoughts

The tempered passage of what I’ve taught

Is it hard to knuckle down

Upon my forehead, a sunken frown

I feel no fear and yet I run

Dissolute, and yet distinguished beneath the thumb

I shed no tears, like the teardrop skies

As the soul begins to weep, behind my eyes