Reave The Sky

Beneath the night’s cold veil
A silence thick and deep
The stars begin to pale
As darkness starts to creep

From out the void it came
A flash without a light
Not fire, nor burning flame
But shadows taking flight

The tenebrous lightning rends  
The heavens, black as stone
Through starless skies it bends
With power yet unknown

No thunder follows fast
No storm to howl its name
But in the void it passed
And nothing stayed the same

It splits the aether wide
Unveils the darkened seam
Where ancient horrors bide
Within the world unseen

The fabric of the sky
Now torn in silent dread
Lets loose a hollow cry
Where light and life have fled

This lightning, cold as night
Brings neither warmth nor flame
But burns away the sight
And leaves no trace of name

A rift where time stands still
Where void and matter meet
The stars forget their will
Their fall is swift, complete

The ether, now unbound
Folds back upon itself
And in that endless round
Dissolves all astral wealth

Beneath this shattered sky
The cosmic breath is weak
Where tenebrous lightnings fly
The universe grows bleak

No dawn can mend the tear
No sun will rise again
For in that void laid bare
The dark is all that reigns