Prism of the Left Eye

Twin eyes, twin perspectives Pick your poison; they're both too hard to explain The cloudy sphere raining down once again While it's earthen brother quakes uncontrollably Ten years passed as ten years started A growling eclipse blots the sun and spreads disease It goes by many names, many forms As it eternally revolves far beyond my reach The boy died in a snowstorm so long ago, it seems Crippled from birth, stillborn, but didn't know it As he took those shaky steps towards a dim white light Collapsing with a crooked smile She stepped out into the sun Its flaming rays warming, not burning Perhaps the first and last time Winter spurned the child A more jealous lover than you'd expect Through fear of failure was failure born A butterfly's flap that would rend the very mountains Expecting a sapling to bear the weight of a treehouse It bends, it breaks He lived to see his wildest dreams come true Invincible behind his suit of armor Light refracting brilliantly on that prism Casting the darkest shadow behind him Even in darkest shadow Did the tiniest embers dance in the sky Through foul black winds Did a flame of hope still burn And so they stood as the monarch of a kingdom of plague As the world outside lay rotting, so they thrived "Nothing remains static," the snow whispered unto them once again Kings are oft hard of hearing Twilight burned beautifully far from civilization As the setting sun cast brilliant shades of scarlet and violet Sickness and death continued unabated As the world was told to simply ignore what they saw Lead may be sweet, but gunmetal is bitter Salvaging wreckage from a charred castle The sun's rays were harsh, even in shadow What else was there to do but wait it out? And so they looked salvation in its prismatic eyes Hiding from one and jabbing the other Left there on their own Without a rainbow in the dark It's a dazzling high number to experience For the one who thought they'd be dead at 15 Yet here they lay, twice that and half formed Too scared to live, yet too proud to die