Last Light

In cold fall We tumble Eyes cast about Seek last light Stars blink out Bodies knot in darkness Together we cling Stars fall cold All swept away Stars blink out All swept away Knowing our days No longer dream Our winter’s long Tears the light away What have we done To our own Our own native clay Finding our lives Inside grief’s watchful eye Learning to mourn Corpses in the snow Time hangs heavy upon our skin Descending the days of a wavering light Sacred the secrets of seasons within Buried deep in our own out of mind Sorrow we feel as we harrow the fields As we know death to be a ravenous beast Weltering in the blood of our love The river itself starts to weep All swept away Cast from sun into shade Cold fall ceaseless In this we are held