This rose is bare but for thorns Dried blood once shed on its petals Is forever gone lost in wind While eternity hollows the unborn On these stony shores Where only flowerless roses bloom And before anything starts Everything is done Before storm there is another one And afterwards the sea is full of fear For rain is mixed with horizon (Ships have no place to land) Hostile world in lost part of universe Paints the hills above in darkened shades Of black while birds fly until they tire And fall from the sky to some shallow place There is you blind and naked And there is me furthest to close When I touch you your eyes perish And into the darkness everything goes While in my depths unneeded soul howls In this world of you and me only flowerless rose grows