From where do you come?

With your mighty flame
With which you awaken within me
This effervescent heat
This burning desire for sinking deep
Between layers and layers of wakefulness
Awakened to the senses of an organic machine
Feelers
Tethered outwards
Exploring oceans of sights
Of sounds
Of history

To meet with open hands
And feel the healing touch
Of one that is eager to greet you too
Fingers that interlock
Finding certainty in the company
That eases your sense of loneliness
To be for the smallest of moments
Not alone in this vast and echoing hall of stars

Where do you come from
You burning candle in the darkness
That lights the shadow so that I might see
When did my eyes open
And is it your hand I feel
Are they yours
These footsteps I follow
These lines that I trace
And these questions that I am asking?

When my fate is due
And the end comes for me
With its return to sleep
Will you be there
Waiting?

I wonder if you know
You are sitting on a dream

Carried away
An ocean
Words as thoughts in an endless stream

Whisked away under the spell of darkness
Where twilight is slowly broken
By the shimmering lights of the quiet stars above

A sea of stark diamonds
Waves beneath which you keep
Silently your prayers
Quietly your sleep

You don't know why you are here
Or how you've come to be
Under the light of our ancestors
You've forgotten how to see

Today I drank from rose coloured petals
My soul parched from these dry winds
That scatter flocks of birds in my head

The restlessness of crows
Wings that scatter stillness
Constant comforting sounds of leaves

I leave
From the top of my head
Water swells

And from the well I take flight
Breaking through the shimmering screen
I wrap the cloak of night around me

And kiss the veil that holds my fickle dreams

Open your eyes
Here in the arctic white
Witness a disappearing act

The blinding snow
Bleaches sight
Light for months on end

Then darkness
Hanging low under the sun
A blanket of sleep

Wake up to the company of stars
Fall asleep as you travel
Deep sea dreaming of horizons afar

And deeper still
Where halls hum
Your feet they land on marble floors

This feigning cold more real
More piercing than anything
Sinking softly through your heels

Winter stretching out its long arms
Cradling the sky in hazy icicles
I let its cold touch seep into my bones

And from my breath
The vapour of a clouded whisper
Stills in the frost

The candle's gone out
Emptiness, hello's
Quiet time, a bow
Off to lead me into the night

Dreamless
To venture into the shrouding dark
Where with eyes closed a body wakes
Soundless and shivering
To deep dark alleys

The walls of which
Rustle quietly like leaves

And lightless stars litter the sky
Pale specks against the darkness
Mirrors to the depths of time

Running ever forward in all directions
Desolation as it spreads
Until everything becomes
Detached

Waiting
Waiting for that breeze
Lift it up, this melody I keep hearing between my ears
A sound so lonely that it haunts me slowly
When the moon hangs lowly and the night calls on me
And I pull the tears back into my eyes
While this song, this haunting song let's out its cries
Is this what it is like when childhood dies
Wave after wave of an ocean filled with regret
A youth you lose as its memories retract
And you become disowned from the things you thought were your own
But one by one they leave, become hesitant to show their clarity
Until at last fiction mingles with reality
And you can't make the distinction anymore
Between what is yours and what is put there by your forgetful insanity

Where beneath I sleep
Taller in dreams
With autumn leaves, colours to bleed
Glory because it fades away

Slowly seeping under skin
Rooted where this tale begins
I can begin to read it
Under your burning coloured eaves

Far away echoes the beating heart
To sound out longing, like a sigh
Escaping from your solemn boughs
Unhurried, unworried your goodbyes

To be as you are
Silent, quiet, calm, serene
Rooted to soil
Growing evergeen