The Birth of *Symbol

from The Birth of the Day Pt. I by Domus

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The lord was born unto
Sounding of trumpeters,
Hidden beneath shoals
Of burning coal
And effervescing valleys.

He rose from the sea,
Or the ocean, or something.
A watery body, most still
And undisturbed.

With the moon so full,
The waves moved in
And filled the earth
With precious stones.

And he wept,
Beneath the sky.
And beneath the deaths,
Is where he will die.

Live in fashionably late,
Seizing in bathrooms.
He can’t see in the dark.
Still the sounds of the larks
Bring him closer to home.
Than ever.

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from The Birth of the Day Pt. I, released August 19, 2012

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