"Iron Stem"
Iron stem.
Frozen marrow.
(tick, tock) Count the iron five.
Three strikes forward,
two strikes back.
Cold clay
under mechanized tracks.
(un, deux, un, deux,
trois) We weld the grain.
We salt the vein.
One two, one
two, one
two three.
Steel bone. Steel bone. (st-st-steel)
Carve the mark in seven strokes.
No mercy in the smoke.
Three and three.
Breathe the rust.
(shhh) Stone into powder.
Powder into dust.
Five to break!
Seven to bind!
(one,
two, three)
Cold machine, ancestral mind!
Iron. Marrow.
Burn the line!
The engine cools.
Silence remains.