M. Rephun (c) January 2008
I have watched the wars unfolding:
I have seen the flames that spread across the land.
In Winter, 1934
I watched the crowds that stood before the stores
They had turned away, they had locked their doors.
And the signs on the windows said "keep out!"
They said "it is forbidden to enter".
And up ahead the mountainous smoke was rising.
On a banner of flame was writ in the clouds
Do not fear, and the great hand came down
And ravaged the earth with death
And a terrible storm was raging.
In Summer, 1945
We watched the light rise in the sky
But it wasn’t the sun that was coming, coming.
And in our hearts a nameless terror stirred
No shouts were raised, no voices heard
But out of the night that was falling
A dreadful voice came calling, calling:
"Look, my children, and be afraid
You in whose shadow It was made
The one whose power holds you in thrall:
Look no further, it will destroy us all"
And in the sky we heard the angels weeping.
In Spring of 1934,
We watched the boots kick down the door
At the old train-yard, we watched the children cry
The two of us were there, just you and I
In spirit and in mind, we lingered through the night
We watched their souls rise up to meet the light
Don’t cry my love, don’t fear
We can come back another year
And I saw the tortured souls rise higher
And I saw the world destroyed in a ball of fire
But the wicked perish, one by one
And the souls of the just men linger on
Don’t cry, my love, don’t cry
The sun sets in the east
It is to us the angels are coming, bearing gifts.
Don’t fear my love, don’t fear
We are rising with the spirits
In the smoke of the chimneys we are rising
And we rise in the ash of the bomb
In this age of terror
We are lifted above the fray
And our souls are one with the dead
Secure in our perch in the heavens
We await the coming of the sun
So that the veil may be lifted
And her light will be let in.
Don’t fear, my love, don’t fear…
