Going Somewhere

Father calls me home to him

Mother kept the fire warm

Wandered all the roads within

The raging of a storm

Wind and snow upon my back

The bitter morning cold

Wander black on lonely tracks

To hide my shattered soul

Remember times when I was young

Then felt the shadows pull

Pulse of creatures in the night

The rhythms cracked my hull

I left the path of tried and true

To make a way my own

Covered now in rough contusions

My blood is on the stones

When I was out upon the road

I met a man in need

He’d wasted all his time and sought

Some god to make him clean

The bitter winds they bit us both

I denied him all his pleas

Half beating heart was then so cold

I fear that man was me

I wandered where the shining sun

Burned upon the sands

Many strong ones came undone

And died upon this land

I met a man upon a dune

He screamed up to the sky

He never saw a flower bloom

For doom was in his mind

He asked me for some water

To soothe his burning throat

Drank every drop I offered

And waited there to die

I fear that man was I

I drowned and sank beneath the waves

Walked on the ocean floor

I found a thousand sunken graves

And missed uncounted more

I met a boy depressed by pressure

Chest flat and lungs crushed

He said he had no need for air

And to the dark he rushed

I abandoned connection and scaled a mountain

Above the clouds I remembered

A child I wished to know again

Who had snapped off all his tethers

But as higher he rode past his pain

More it stripped his feathers bare

He fell and all his pride was vain

Him in me I carry