A calm then, the roaring wall of the eye As we sailed to the world from an insular life From the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives From the
By shadowing All the darkened fields Of forgotten words And civilian lives Violence Through the changing guards Through the grinding away And their furious
the radial lines That bind the waking world To the hidden life of the empire That sleeps in the frozen lakes And moors in the darkened bays And glows in the golden
the flares that fall Like fireflies on the islands In the boom and swell From the waves to the heights Reverberations Of our old lives Like a golden
Walk him up and down the corridors Till his arms are tired Till his lungs are tired Starve him of the air, the dimming light Till his eyes are wide Till
Come down from the lion's back Call down to the endless sleepers Give life to the dimming days That run in an endless stream now In the black of the
Effortless gulls in the wake Silver and white on the bow As the island is broken away From the world Bandages pulled from the eyes The violent surging
Send back the uniforms Send back the generous Reich Send us back to our lives On the waving blue wild And remove every mark Down to the waterline And
In a power dive In a slow burn Over ancient fields Over islands From the slope and the rise Of the mainland Unfamiliar shapes Through the atmosphere
How could I have seen them Their faces and distant lives Shells in the ocean Just a mark Laid on the map lines To drown in the ocean's rise Or burn in
My brother stands at the end of the line My children at the breaking wall The clouds is opening over the earth The palms a dark and waving wall And we
By shadowing all the darkened fields of forgotten words and civilian lives Through violence through the changing guards through the grinding away and
