Mercury Rising

The barometer drops And the silver climbs the glass Something old is waking underneath the overcast The trees bend low like they remember this A pressure building in the atmosphere's fist Mercury rising Slowly, then all at once The sky cracks open And we become What the thunder promised What the silence kept Mercury rising From the depths The birds went quiet an hour ago The lake turned mirror, obsidian and slow I stood at the window, watching it arrive The sublime and terrible collide Mercury rising Slowly, then all at once The sky cracks open And we become What the thunder promised What the silence kept Mercury rising From the depths Let it come Let it come Not with fury But with awe The most powerful storms Barely raise their voice at all