Into The Woods

On a cold clear day in the middle of my world
I saw the sky fall gray, as destiny unfurled
The riddle of my world presented like a play
through the actions of the girl, fired my mortal clay
How could she beloved by a heart forever true
never call me closer as I longed for her to do?
In desperation I fell toward harsh truth:
I was alien to her world of birth. It's not the hard answer that hurts...

Unwanted, naked, defeated, and lost
I abandoned my prior religion; I'd never touch a person
I was as near as I'd ever get, and only saw what they let
of their lives in my vision; my heart chilled with frost

Strapping into my automobile
abandoning all dreams
wanting nothing to feel
I went to a woods by a stream

I walked more than miles
I walked over the edge
to a world of wilderness
crawling with death

Twisted black branches
each uniquely alien to me
rose from fields glittering
with snowy patches

Sounds rose and echoing fell
just beyond my ear
not waiting for humans
to learn what they were

I walked as pain faded
light falling dim
and wished on rough glades
to be what I was in

Feelings fled with the falling light
as her world drained from my failing sight
I cast off the remnants of love's dying dream
along the shores of a rocky old stream

I pressed onward yet, gust on my face
dancing across me, blazingly cold
My skin was my liveliest place
a tingling crust for heart grown old

I walked alone, the night closing in
pressing about me, gripping my soul
I welcomed the numbness of death
and dwelling in darkness I somehow felt whole

I stood still at last, all alone
under a dome of articulate gray
I was the only man alive that day

alone

the wilderness my home