asunder

alone without an echo
man without his god 
cold the path and harsher wrath
in circle footsteps trod

one to other
no higher brother
"father asunder!" laud

when we rest 
belabored breast
circle snake and mountain mother

calls to home 
her boys of Rome
to death they lead each other

Osiris rise with freshened eyes
from mother's flooded tear
and bend the knee, the proper son
know thy god and mark the year