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Sunrise bleeds out through the mists

And coagulates in the snowy tracks

To drown with every luminous drop

The time until my journey begins

And you will be there, I know

In the glaring white embrace

Even step back leads ever forward

As uncharted paths crystalize over

Map of the world before today

All I have are withered footprints on ice

To give away to a myriad of concealed gazes

Skeletal trees claw the zenith by its throat

Lacerated flesh and squeezed exhales

Rage between and bury the horizon

As I continue to chase it with a mournful pace

The ragged one will be crowned in snow

He tarnishes the ground towards no throne

The brightness around to be turned in dark

By scattered procession in gray and black

Among ravens and wolves I walk

Among ravens and wolves I walk

Between sharpened teeth and distorted croak

Among ravens and wolves I walk

I engrave my being onto tempered water

Sculptured wave for eyeless gale to read

And follow, creeping along with no direction

Angrily blinding the only memory of me

But you see all, remember and pass it on

Sacred stillness, graceful and vile

Dismembers with passion pulsing warmth

Howling pieces echo within the lungs

And soar upward the gaping chill

If there’s a heartbeat other than mine

It’s either yours, or yours for the taking

Mountain shadows weigh on your wings

Circling accretion of shining charcoal

Peaks kneel, besieged by snarling pack

To shield the Sun which thaws behind

Welcome the traveler, astray from his kind

Grant him stars should he forsake daylight

Only silence here to claim as his own

Away from all is the closest to call home

Among ravens and wolves I walk

Among ravens and wolves I walk

Feathers, fur and tattered cloak

Among ravens and wolves I walk

My campfire sets the northern sky ablaze

With color amidst the iridescent obscurity

Here is threshold beyond mere sleep

Engulfed by the pyre of reigning Moon