A Bolt of Blazing Gold - Dark Tranquillity

A bolt of blazing gold

Lifted from the horizon’s edge

Another radiant dawn sends new hope

Avowed my hearty pledge

My yearning to be part

Of nature’s truthful solitude

Of wisdom’s inner light

That shines in mystic multitude

The guiding source within

So few of us will ever know

And few will ever climb

The great world-tree from which we’ve grown

But those who seek will find

The rhythm that vibrates high and far

And rearrange the cosmic threads

The pattern of the Weave of Stars

A bolt of blazing gold

A sunfire in zenith hurled

Oh, wingless skydancer

Rejoiced upon the warmth unfurled

What wonders do you hold ensnared

With your mighty heart?

What secrets may be mine

To brother-share as we depart?

Of richest emerald forged

My soul still rises, longingly

From inferno’s winding caverns

Through dark air soaring, restlessly

If silence was enough!

No words can grasp my starkest thoughts

No language known to man

Portrays my naked sentiment

A bolt of blazing gold

Swallowed by the waveless sea

The ocean-winds set sail

In breeze towards their destiny

On solarbeams they rode

White sea-gull-wings in harmony

For a moment’s startling glimpse

A sienna-burnt tranquility

Oh father of the coloured sky

Unwear thy robe of shadowhood

Let nature’s soul once clash again

'Neath blooming glades of goldenwood

We’re the ones who seek

To dance to fallen serenades

The magic hymns of gold;

As softly sung, the sunlight fades

…Away

Of richest emerald forged

My soul still rises, longingly

From inferno’s winding caverns

Through dark air soaring, restlessly

If silence was enough!

No words can grasp my starkest thoughts

No language known to man

Portrays my naked sentiment

A world of silent stone

As frozen in the nightly sky

In heaven’s dark recesses laid

No living soul draws nigh

For seconds all is still

No moonlight heaves throughout the dark

Nor do the heavens breathe

No dryads wreathe within the dark

Within my dark domain…