And it came to pass
That in the days of drought
A great storm arose
Out of the west

And the storm brought
The tearing winds
Nettles and stinging things
Devourers of flesh
And those renders of the soul

The foul wind roared
As it leveled kingdoms
And cities disappeared
It clawed at the mountains
And whipped the seas

And it was in those dark days
The sun and moon's light
Was swallowed whole
Such that man was reduced
To blindness and fear

A man arose from the wasteland
He and his kind
The people of the plucked eyes
And the ruptured ears
Those who saw and heard
Only with their heart

We must discover
From whence came this wind
We must uncover
What remnant of truth remains
And seek relief
From this early grave

A delegation was volunteered
And sent out against the wind
Hollow laughter arose from man
Foolish in their contempt
But the visioneers
For it was such that they imagined
Pushed onward
To the heart of death

And it came to pass
After two years, one month
And seventeen days of silence
An answer was brought forth

The sad remnant of man
Huddled in their pits
Listened with what heart remained
And upon hearing
Were divided as a nation
Some chose to believe
While others rejected

And so it was that man
Turned against man
As is always his wont
And the visioneers
And their followers
Were driven from
The company of men
To again brave the winds

Soon man forgot his past
Forgot his reason and wisdom
And clawed his way ever deeper
Into the dark caves
Away from the winds
Away from the truth
And forever away
From the respite they crave.

............

And what answer was given
What truth was so hated
Why were men divided
And driven into the storm
And what became of the visioneers
And their followers

The wind they said
Was caused by a vacuum
An absence from the world
Such was the integral nature
That the absence produced
A continual storm

And the absence itself
Arose from the world
Of the spirit, to envelope
The world of the physical

The absence was caused
By no less than man himself
By his pride
By the twisting of morality
And rejecting the truth

Man pushed God out of his life
And God's absence
Brought forth the devouring wind
And laid flat
The pride of man

The answer rejected
Was of the simplest sort
To stop the tempest
Remove the absence
Vision and heart
Knowledge and hearing
Will be restored
And life will begin again