Slipping in the mire

Scrambling into the darkness

Do I walk alone?

These mountains we climb

We bound and scale further than

Those inside our minds

Four carrion crows

They see my shadowy soul

From the gallows pole

Hiding in hedges

Finding a safe place to rest

Away from the wolves

I hedge myself in

On my solitary island

With no one to hear

I see morning stars

Giving me a beating heart

Just another scar

Behind my cold eyes

Something burns inside of me

Maybe you can see

There is fire and snow

There is a long way to go

We won’t be alone

Another day breaks

I will go ahead and wait

The iron tree line shakes

Falcon spies his hill

Swoop and glide and duck and dive

Rise up with his kill

Where have the birds gone?

I don’t know what I have done

I’ll try tomorrow

We lift up our heads

To the brazen skies above

Living a twilife

Reeds shake in the breeze

Hairy heads heavy with seeds

Mistakes and misdeeds

Each moment is new

Every day casts its own spell

Can we capture it?

Through icy cold nights

Frost bites, rats fight out of sight

Fog clouds the moonlight

Every ship is bound

To the currents that surround

And the winds that hound

Look up to the sky

There’s a fire burning higher

Nowhere left to hide

Grey hide turns russet

Leaves rustle in the red-shift

Rusty puddles drift

Orange photons weave

Through thickets of naked trees

Silent semi-breve

Mottled grey hues collapse

Into chiseled out valleys

I too wear a path