I Called It Adamant
Metamorphosis after this wild Genesis
Still I waited for you in that vast wilderness
Breathless in the hills and out of life yet I survived that stillness
Who was I before this wild Genesis?
Who am I to survive this?
Who was I before this metamorphosis?
It was adamant daybreak then now it's good morning midnight
I was dreaming Adamantine
Desire this replenishing ecstasy
I wanted and I wanted senselessly
With the decadence of dying empires
I wanted and I wanted ravenously
Desire an angel with wings of Adamantine
Even among the fallen of Earth you were a marvel
Desire this chain of being resurrecting every night
Well hang me by the high chandeliers of light
I survived vanishing many times
At world’s end I felt I was a liminal being
This decadence
To resurrect twice
Once for desire
Once for appetite
Desire said: I am Genesis
I worshipped desire in the midnights
Chasing after these wildernesses
In the flooding world you chose drowning to survive
This is the mirror of moonlight
This is how you die
In a Genesis void
I was vanishing liminality like the twilights
Beckoning tragedy in Paradise
Desire this wilderness I worshipped
Madonna drowned in the vortexes
Salvation from the wasteland
I was stranded in this wanting wilderness
Desire the forbidden republic— this wild Genesis
I was liminal as the summer twilights
Twice I died
Twice I survived
Dreaming of the Adamantine galaxies
And then the Adamantine galaxies dreamed of me
This honorable death from desire I wanted and I wanted ravenously
I resurrected into that wilderness I desired that wilderness
Down the steps of heaven to the apocalypse midnights
Desire this evening ecstasy I wanted and I wanted senselessly
Still this wild worship to me
Tears in rain Genesis
Desire resurrected me
What annihilation it is to daydream
Desire I wouldn't forget
This hinge of creation at Genesis
Yes I worshipped at your knees but only momentarily
You were a morning rising again and again from the midnights
Even I called it ecstasy when desire worshipped me
I wanted and I wanted ravenously
Desire this reaching Genesis of decadent Babylon
Even God said I worshipped too long
You vanished with the fickle winds
I called it decadent Babylon when I worshipped at your knees all winter long
You reminded me of the universes Adamantine
These midnight disquiets I survived
Worship in starless wilderness
I was dreaming Adamantine
What if you annihilated the sirens to stop their crying?
What if you survived this oblivion only to die from desiring?
I escaped from the graveyards of decadent Babylon
and the world I had once worshipped was gone