BardicTranslationRoughs/Presence

1.

The rivers run backwards.
Three hours left until the underworld breaks through.
We have orders to retreat.
In HQ they're burning papers - unfulfilled dreams.
The earth shakes underfoot
The tree of the world tilts like a tower crane
The stars go out, one after another:
The hordes of Magog are charging forth.
[Kemet] is once more plunged into darkness
A thunderstorm rages on the [Sinai] heights
He is already on earth!
Oh, my Lord, He is already opening his eyes!

(Eloi, eloi, lama sabthani!)

The sky is steel armour plate
Heaven's doors are locked with rusty bolts
They've all gone without me
I call out, but nothing friendly responds
I see, as a fever dream
The rising of the Last Dawn over the world
My heart, a dead bird frozen in ice
Keeps talking of a future
That no longer exists

2.

Come, o weak nations!
Bow before the King!
With a generous hand I give you
The horns of a meaningless freedom
In me is encompassed the highest [gnosis] -
The destruction of worlds
My very touch itself [theosis]
[Ildabaoth] is cast down to ashes

3.

Over the thickness of bottomless water
Over the eternal omnipresent sea
Lit by the sunset rays
Flies the last albatross

No mortal fear is in him;
No futile rebellion
He simply does what he must
For as long as his soul still lives

In the twilight rays, his feathers
Glow like a fiery crystal
The cross-shaped shadow glides over the ways
When the fall comes
The earth, as it was before the Day of Creation
Shall once more be formless and void.

4.

Trembling whispers through the people - "The snows have come."
They fall quiet; they start breathing - it is good..

Softly-softly they float up to the blue skylight
Gently, gently they feel the silence

With such sorrow they look out through the glass into the distance
Life is a swing between darkness and darkness
Pity...
Pity!