A Silence Song

so much silence stretching above me

around me too

has it deafened you

has it closed my ears

has the silence itself brought about this rapture

between silence and sound

between the cry and the cull

if man raises one voice

i'll raise two then

one for loss

one for losing

one for death

and one for birth

he may hang bloodytorn on this tree of moss

though my grimace will cut my grin

i'll rise triumphant

i'll rise triumphing

you won't catch me

i fly unseen through the wind of the worlds

missiles cut space spearing the starlight

masking the moon

wide of the march

give me two reasons to stay here

lostlight lostlove

smudge the tracks and smother the traces

of the fires of your fear

near the

under the

beside the

beyond the flowers

then further still

the children lie in silent space

the wind shivers through

their cornburnt hair

silence immaculate

if they move from silence to sound

will the world shudder

will my heart stop

in a cave

in a maze

spring slides

through my sadness

and my winter

the stars have frozen into space

the stars have molten into space

the children wait

flowers around burnish their hair

with brazen gold and heartred rose

if i move then i shall stop

how have the sightless fallen

i shall take a knife to your heart

i'll take a knife to your heart

i'll, i'll take a knife to your, to your heart

and london bridge no long longer remains

christ's face refracted through

the sky then breaks up into

different shapes