The Debt of Heaven

The astronomers stopped writing mid-sentence, mid-year Not because they lost the thread because something appeared The oldest women in the oldest villages started dreaming the same dream A figure at the edge of the known world standing in the seam Not yet not yet but the ground knows her step The animals turned east this morning before the sun had left Not yet not yet but the frequency changed Something ancient made a promise and it's coming to be paid The bones in the deep museums started pointing the same way The unfinished temples make sense now she was always meant to stay Every culture left a door they couldn't explain why Every myth ends with a return every prophet aimed at the sky Not a war not a rapture not a throne and not a crown Just the thing that was removed once coming back around coming back around coming back around You can feel it in the pressure before the storm breaks open wide The century is holding its breath something's on the other side Not yet not yet but the ground knows her step The animals turned east this morning before the sun had left Not yet not yet but the frequency changed Something ancient made a promise and it's coming to be paid The door was always there the door was always there She's on the other side of it and she's already on the stair