In the time of an exile From the jails of another Where soundings are taken Raw to his eyes I have walked the way from him Down to splintering bone ashes With your voice shining sea In his fractures and skys There are no voices here There are only confessions Keeping him hidden Weighed out of his name We have entered deserted He has gazed from my windows As if all that replaced us Could still end in me
For the first time unwoken I am returned For the first time unwoken I am returned He arrives from a place With a face of fast sun Arrives from a space His refuge overrun She will fold him away in his Badly changed hand Fold him away far behinf Where I am For the first time forgetting I am returned As if all that replaced us Ends it again As if all that replaced us Ends