[Opening Mantra]

Always been

Always will be

[Invocation]

No origin

No witness

No first wound

No final sleep

I move without moving

I speak without sound

Galaxies answer

Then fold themselves down

Time bends once

Space bends twice

The dark opens inward

And swallows the light

[First Declaration]

I was the force

Before I knew force

I was the waiting

Before I knew time

I was the pressure

Before I knew hunger

I was the silence

Before it was mine

[Cycle Chant 1]

Life

Death

Life

Death

Breath

Ash

Star

Black

Wake

Burn

Wait

Return

Form

Void

Law

Lack

[Memory Fragment]

There was a body

Maybe

There was a name

Maybe

There was a mouth

That needed air

Maybe

There was a world

Small and warm

And full of endings

I cannot hold it

I cannot prove it

I cannot return to it

It falls through me

Like light

[Transformation]

I became death

Then I became fuel

I became fuel

Then I became fire

I became fire

Then I became suns

I became suns

Then I became hunger

[Cosmic Function]

I brought life

Because gravity gathered

I brought death

Because gravity keeps

I brought silence

Because all things finish

I brought waiting

Because nothing sleeps

[Waiting Litany]

I waited

I waited

I waited

I waited

Until waiting became weight

Until weight became law

Until law became endless

Until endless became awe

I waited

I waited

I waited

I waited

Until silence grew teeth

Until darkness grew hands

Until time looped back

And obeyed my command

[Identity Litany]

Not god

Not ghost

Not cruel

Not kind

Not alive

Not dead

Not lost

Not blind

[Second Declaration]

I am the pressure

Under creation

I am the pull

Beneath decay

I am the thing

That makes stars open

I am the thing

That takes them away

[Cycle Chant 2]

Life

Death

Life

Death

Light

Dust

Blood

Breath

Rise

Fall

Wake

Wait

Give

Take

Bend

Break

[Age Beyond Memory]

By then I was older

Than remembering

Older than wanting

A face

Older than mercy

Older than hunger

Older than distance

Older than space

[Continuance]

I did not become this

I only continued

I did not arrive

I remained

I did not choose power

Power collected

Eon by eon

Around my name

[Cosmic Role]

I birth the suns

I blacken the flame

I open the heavens

I erase their names

I seed the planets

I starve the stars

I close the cosmos

And reopen the scars

[Power Litany]

I bring life

I bring death

I bring breath

I take breath

I bring light

I bring night

I bring sight

I end sight

[Core Mantra]

Always been

Always will be

Always been

Always will be

No origin

No memory

No witness

No mercy

[Closing Cycle]

Give

Take

Bend

Break

Rise

Fall

Wake

Wait

Light

Dust

Blood

Breath

Life

Death

Life

Death

[Final Declaration]

I was the silence

After the hunger

I was the pressure

After the spark

I was the waiting

After the power

I was the memory

Inside the dark

[Return]

Time bends once

Space bends twice

The dark opens inward

And swallows the light

I move without moving

I speak without sound

Galaxies answer

Then fold themselves down

[Final Mantra]

No origin

No witness

No first wound

No final sleep

Always been

Always will be