Sliver silver The nighttime I walk beneath bewilders And with the skin of my neck prickled with shivers We walk towards the water The moonlight to me shimmers Upon that which I seek neath ocular moon and few stars They see widely but I see the swoon Of the moon on the river flow swift And wither I meet it with wits about this body I know not yet since My skin it so shivers and slivers of mist Caress my wet cheek that’s collected its breath.
Towards river I go and hope there be boats At least one under bridge held fast by its rope Where I pray go as I find my fate has so wrote And under moon so bright it shines fore my face, This mist be sweat from my brow dripped into my mouth For the salt it doth leave on my lips for my tongue to run Upon the road that I walk there hangs a mist But a sliver that follows in my very midst And each step I take that draws the river to me near My heart quickens and blood thickens For my shroud I cannot shrug.
But facing this silver moon I will never turn back It pulls me in closer to watch as it slides and shivers on swift river Upon which my liking I see eerily shimmers I am the water and I am the mist And there is the boat where my fate is writ Tied fast with its rope quite under the bridge To shroud it’s oarsmen on this night Which be lit by the opal moon’s bright torch light
Here I will go and fate I will find The mist follows with me away from the shine Now I am the water and I am the mist No sliver silver upon me shall sit Until the books of this time have ended their script.