At first light
Flesh was glass
Porcelain hands drew
Wide open seas of dew
Torrents ran free
Around cherry-blossom trees

But ever after is
A promised land in dust
A split-second gift
This eden that banned us
Oh, springs lost

Immured blaze, grace injured
Hazed empyrean, blurred

Time is slumber
Cradling ordeal
We were sparks and embers
The incendiary dreams
And we're nothing but matter
Gravity and fear

Flesh - shattered
Seas - anchored
Floods - are wells
Trees - in jail