There Will Come A Time 1 Poem by Dalyn Cornell

There will come a time when stars,
bleed down into the earth.
When we are born to die,
and die to rebirth.
When the heavens open up,
and the sight shatters minds.
When the trees fall to ashes,
when the planets all align.

There will come a time when stone,
will fall out from our feet.
When the core rises up,
in deafening red and heat.
When the sea reclaims the land,
and the land reclaims the bone.
When all we are is burned,
and the earth takes what we think to own.

There will come a time when pathways,
are cut down to the Fire.
When roads are sheered through heaven,
when we learn how to reach higher.
When darkness floods the skies,
endless, thick, and black.
When we fall to what we were,
and we dare not turn our back.

There will come a time when time,
even turns back on itself.
When the beginning is the end,
and for us there is no help.
When nature comes back to haunt us,
to the end of it all.
When we are no more than beasts,
watching our own downfall.

There will come a time when the world,
gives over to fire, ice, and storm.
When ice towers glitter the white of death,
and rain of fire is the norm.
When we see that we are lowly,
that we are not so in control.
When the skies are formed of shadow,
when the world is one great hole.

There will come a time when fear,
will become all that we know.
When joy will be all but forgotten,
in the depth of the shadow.
When light will be mere myth,
a tale of days unknown.
When we will unravel apart,
from the seams on which we were sewn.

There will come a time when dawn,
will break through the crushing night.
When we will be reformed,
in a new and better light.
When death is but the beginning,
and the cycle turns again.
When our potential will unfold,
and we will evolve to more than men.

There will come a time when wars,
are but brutal memories of the past.
When we will be beyond human,
when we will finally build to last.
When wisdom replaces knowledge,
and heart replaces greed.
When the universe will grow and flourish,
from the galactic harmony seed.

There will come a time when unity,
will exist between man and beast.
When ten will become one hundred,
and there will be most where there was least.
When evolution is our future,
and we are all that we should be.
That is when we will be worthy,
of all that we can see.

For there will come a time to grow,
to reach beyond the now.
To embrace what we defy,
and halt what we allow.
To follow the ancient cycle,
of three steps and repeat.
To learn through pain and suffering,
to step from storm and sleet.

And in the darkest hour see hope,
to be what we always should.
A crossroads up and coming,
to sin and bad or right and good.
We will stand at it together,
and together we will choose.
Whether to rise and grow and become,
or to break and die and lose.

For there will come a time of choice,
when the inevitable must come to pass.
When no one will come to help us,
when we are all the hope we have.
And no one can make it for us,
the choice that we must make.
For we are all we have left,
and it is us who will keep or forsake.

For there will come a time when destiny,
is inescapable as a chain.
When we will rise from the beds of bloodshed,
upon which we have so long lain.
And it is just the all of us who can do this,
us and us alone.
Because the turning point starts now,
whether conscious or unknown.