Two Voices in the Root

[Intro: Silence, lone piano, low drone.] [Gaia part: Distorted voice, reverb, slow.] You are the seed that fell into my hearth, Your fear is like the first leaf reaching fire. Accept my gift — not pain, but second birth, I'll turn your ash to turquoise and to sapphire. [Maya part: Clear, strained voice, almost whisper.] I saw your garden — it is soaked in blood, There is no love, only a hollow dream. I won't become a part of your green mud, I'm human, not your myth, not your extreme. [Duet: Simultaneous, dissonant.] "In the rhizome — timeless grace..." "In the rhizome — death and empty space!" "You'll be all that was and all to come..." "You'll kill the memory of everyone!" [Gaia part: Calm, persuasive.] You rage at yourself, not at me, You fear the silence that I send. Your kind's a flare — brief, bright, then free, I am the tide that never ends. [Maya part: Desperate, breaking.] You don't breathe, you're rotting mulch, You're not mother, you're a parasite. I won't join your dream — I'll crush, I'll squelch, I'll blow you up with dynamite! [Climax duet: Maximum chaos.] "Submit, and you will see new worlds..." "You lie! Behind them — only void!" "I'm Alpha, Omega, the swirl..." "I'm your scream, your last destroyed!" [Bridge: Music fades, only Maya's whisper, then distant Gaia.] I will not die... I won't fade... I'll remain... You'll remain... in leaf... in rain... in root... [Final: Depending on ending.] "I am human!" — cut to silence.