1. SYLVAN

An answer to letting go
Vanquished, desolate
Usurped and banished
No kings to ever reign in my stead
An arrow through the heart
Bleeding light, Bleeding life
Cold hands joined in litany
A remedy or a curse
A cure or an empty hearse
I was never alive
I have never been here
A wet night brought my endless rain
The fog to let us see through and within
The unknown, the hearth, a darkened place, a heart
As the ocean sways
And the waves rise
Alive, relinquished
The mark of winter,
A memory and fading light


2. COLD WIND

Here with me
It will never change
The wind calls your name
I am keeping the light you left with me
Unheld, the wind calls your name


3. YEARNING

Blood becomes soul
This light that awakes me
The dream that escapes me
In a bed of trees
Where there were none
Soul becomes ash
The place is near
Echoed in the smoke, never left alone
Echoed in the stars, forever left alone
Dreams of the day
To wait, to stay, to never end
Blood creates, soul creates
As I dream of the days
So long ago
Déraciné
The only way is dark in the light
A darkened vein