Barren Lands - Memory Garden

Staring through these barren lands

Like countless times before

Have been walking since forever

A thousand miles or more

Not a soul to share my thoughts

Of this devastation brought

Cold winds whisper

The blackened sky advance

Dry leaves perform their crippled dance

Patterns in the sand mark my way

Others can follow and join one day

So self-destructive but unwilling to see

The seams were all ripped and damnation set free

Prophecies of old

Just an old fools story told?

We have forsaken ourselves

Far too greedy and filled with hate

The high-minded bonds evaporate

Selling the course with every mistake

The waves of consequence obliterate

Memory fragments of a perfect world

Still, people dreamt about the perfect world

Instincts took over, intellect put aside

Survival needed sacrifice

Nature and man collide