Bound to the bloodring

Once-wonderful garden now blighted and untended

Final moments of a Creation sworn never to end

The lure of that red button: restart

Smokelike clouds of stinging things swim into vision

A time of division, when strictures are rigid

Holy places, high places and pillared temples pillaged

Yearlong winters, frigid and gelid

Crops on which survival is dependent

Are fed to fires thousands-tended;

Power from his blood rings, and from his seraph-forged pendant.

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