Kamaskera The Glass Engine

I walked your corridors for hours
That swallowed centuries outside
Your pistons rose and fell in silence
Your glass mechanics turned and sighed

You showed me rooms that had no walls
And doors that opened onto mist
I memorised each frozen angle
Each gear each mirror each cold twist

You built a future without my consent
Processed every promise that I meant

Glass engine glass machine
You take the world and give it back remade
I know your gears Ive walked between
Your mirrors and the futures that youve made
This is my challenge my love my warning

A painting hangs upon a study wall
My face beside a knight I cannot keep
A reader card reads nineteen thirtyseven
A child I have not borne lies fast asleep

You built five generations from a curse
That measures love in hours never years
I stand among my own descendants now
And find my face reflected in their tears

You built all this from time I havent spent
A dynasty of hours accident

Glass engine glass machine
You take the world and give it back remade
I know your gears Ive walked between
Your mirrors and the futures that youve made
This is my challenge my love my warning

She has my eyes the child who entered singing
Elizabeth embraced me on the stair
The dress is torn by bullets in the painting
But still the knight waits for me there

Glass engine glass machine
You take the world and give it back remade
I know your gears Ive been
Your subject and your lover and your blade
This is my answer I am unafraid