Shadow Pierced Chaos

From depths where order breaks
And chaos first was born
A shadow wakes and shakes
In darkness, swift and sworn

It pierces through the night
With tendrils long and cold
Unseen by mortal sight
Yet ancient as the old

No star can quell its march
No flame can burn it back
It strides beneath the arch  
Where time itself does crack

The undying shadow grows
In silence, yet profound
Its strength no limit knows
Nor chain to hold it bound

It pierces through the veil
Where chaos spins its thread
Through realms of birth and bale
Where gods and stars have bled

No light can halt its reign
No force can dim its might
For where it casts its stain
All yields before the night

It swallows void and flame
The cosmos in its clutch
The laws that once held claim  
Dissolve beneath its touch

The whirl of chaos turns
But cannot shake its grasp
And where the cosmos burns
It smothers with one gasp

It wraps the stars in dark
Consumes their fiery breath
And leaves no shining mark  
But cold, unyielding death

The undying shadow spreads
Through every crack and seam
The light of heaven dreads  
Its ever-growing stream

No force can end its course
No dawn can tear it down
For in its silent source
The void becomes its crown

Enveloping all things
It binds the worlds with night
And on its formless wings
Flies ruin and delight

Chaos bends and sways
Enfolded in its grasp
The shadow takes the day
And nothing dares to clasp