Reckoning

A tide of shadows creeps through the night Shattering stars, devouring light The ground it trembles, the heavens wail The hour has come, the skies grow pale The tolling bell marks a fate forseen A shattered crown, a kingdom unclean The weight of sins too vast to bear All lies laid bare in the cold, dead air The end unfolds in the deafening roar A judgment carved in the earth's deep core No mercy waits, no tome to atone In the reckoning, we stand alone Echoes of grief rise from the stone A thousand voices reduced to bone Through ashen winds, their dirge takes flight A mournful hymn to eternal night The silence falls like a burial shroud A world erased beneath the cloud And as the dust consumes the flame No soul remains to speak the name