I awoke in a tree, I’d blossomed from its leaves, I awoke into a brighter dark A fairy of the forest, came into the open, shouting from its blinding eye We ran into the brush, the violence and the musty centre of our father ’s heart The spiders on the walls, cascading waterfalls and caverns of the strangest fear Pouring from the ceiling, brandishing and reeling, finally I pierce the eye Suddenly a spark, the aura of a heart and a way out
Came into a clearing Only the wood providing shielding Then came the night, and the skulls, the howling of the wolves They cowered in fear They cowered in fear at the sun in their eyes, at the light crawling near Wounded in the mountains, healing from the fountain, trials in the heart of caves Carrying the stones, a boy without a home, a reckless and unbounded child Entering a tomb, where time would not move until I had grown