Look beyond rooftops

Knot your mind with oak and thorn

And let the ash rise

The water takes me

Wherever it wants to go

I am a river

Up above we play

While the river ever runs

Obliviously

Dive and swoop and turn

Inbetween the river banks

Rolling water churns

Follow the moonlight

Past the fairies and wood nymphs

Down to the river

As the sun falls down

Clouds turn into mountain tops

Feet return to ground

A secret village

Buried heart of the forest

Eerily empty

These days are rarer

Than giant harvester moons

Each happens but once

Warm waves wash us clean

Create new memories to keep

And carry our dreams

Let the light align

The lost golden compass lines

Moon’s silver decline

If I could keep to

Empty roads, I’d never know

How far still to go

Like steady drizzle

We slowly trickle and seep

Through damp city streets

The years hurry on

Our days pass by in a blink

The land still remains

Mix light, air, water

With a tiny spark of seed

And life will flourish

I was an asteroid

Now I am gathering moss

Just a stone cold rock

And when the sun sets

Life becomes a silhouette

Time becomes unset

Sun catches old firs

We pine to be lifted up

By its golden light

All across England

Scattered oaks watch o’er our fields

While we live and die

Only the hawthorn

Can fight the rolling molars

Brandished by these sheep

Thread a needle line

Through the iris of the storm

Be nature’s pupil

As days run away

They will help us to answer

Questions never asked

I know that one day

I’ll look back at these years and

Miss them desperately