A Silence Song

So much silence
Stretching above me
Around me too
Has it deafened me?
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

I may hang bloody-torn
On this tree of moss
Though my grimace
Cuts 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
Lost light, lost love

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
Wind shivers through
Their corn-burnt hair

Silence immaculate
If they move
From silence to sound
Will the world shudder?
Will my heart stop?
In a cave, in her maze
The spring slides
Through my sadness
And my winter
The stars have now frozen into space

The stars have molten into space
The children wait
Flowers around
Burnish their hair
With brazen gold
And heart-red rose

If I move, then I shall stop
How have the sightless fallen
I'll 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 longer remains
Christ's face refracted through the sky
Then cuts up into different shapes