Into The Woods

Now close your eyes

And open your weary heart

Let me soothe away the woes

Of fiendish world...

As will the sun bathe the land

In its warming light

So shall the moon ascend

To guide the day to wane

In turn the rain to hush

The tumult of this world

And the wind to rise,

Sigh a lullaby in trees

"Not in these troubled times

I`m not the one you pined for

No, not into calmer waters

I`m not the one you long for"

"But a scarecrow, an anathema to the world

Looking in from the outside

It`s time to turn my back,

Walk off the beaten path

Seek heartening in solitude"

The arc of sky is roof where I call it home

Drizzle of rain the only music from now on

My bed is made from juniper`s boughs

Of mire and moss my pillow

"Not in these troubled times

I`m not the one you pined for

No, not into calmer waters

I`m not-the one you long for"

"But a scarecrow, an anathema to the world

Looking in from the outside

It`s time to turn my back,

Walk off the beaten path

Seek heartening in solitude"

Lone footprints diverge from tree line

Autumn veils the sloughs with rime

Shell of quagmire

Yet too fragile to bear a man