calamity // "the past is another land"

You know nothing about me
And care even less.

How could you understand our emptiness?

You've plundered our wisdom,

Our knowledge, our wealth. 

In bleeding us dry,

You long for our spirit

But that you will never possess!

The past is now another land

Far beyond my reach

Invaded by insidious

Foreign bodies, foreign speech

Where the timeless joys of childhood 

Lie broken on the beach.

The present is an empty space 

Between the good and bad 

A moment leading nowhere

Too pointless to be sad 

But time enough to lay to waste

Every certainty I had.

The future is a barren world

From which I can't return.

Both heartless and material,

Its wretched spoils not my concern

Shining like an evil sun 

As my childhood treasures burn

Shining like an evil sun 

As my childhood treasures burn.

I recently finished reading Calamity, the last book in the Steelheart series, and I was thinking about the song "The Past is Another Land" from Aida and how the song works well for the character Megan from the Steelheart series. So I did some fanart and a process gif for fun. I hope you like it! And if you've read the series, let me know what you thought!