Tag: the king in yellow

A rhyme that will likely appear in some form in $20,000 Under the Sea, revealed to me, perhaps ironically, in a dream nearly a decade ago. This is the version that has bubbled up after some 10 revisions. There is a particular, if obscure, lyrical inspiration, though I’m not sure how apparent it is at this point.

On darkest side of darkest Dream
The Dreamer softly sings
He wraps himself in gilded thought
And robes and eyes and wings

One man has seen the Yellow Sign
The other never will
In synthesis they reckon with
The world He means to kill

So watcher if you like the glass
That shatters in the sky
Show me what you’ll trade for it
This hour before you die

Give me the fire in your heart
And the shards of Dream shall be
Smoothed for you, made glassy eyes
Through which, at last, you’ll see