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Ancient, eldest, slow as stone
Wearing water, cracking bone
Dark within the seeds, unknown
Potential present: past alone
Time was
Now and near a parent sighs
Beneath the blade a child dies
Old men marry youth that flies
Past potential: present cries
Time is
Fecund future fires in
Beats the blood beneath the skin
Tempered toment, hammered thin
Present past: potentials spin
Time will be
Red and black and gold enchain
Transcend stasis, chaos rein
Turn the wheel and hope regain
Changer changing: wings like pain
Time Was Is Will be -
Now