Hiding Hiding under the ground Is the world still turning round? Writing I give names to the colors and shapes Can I recall my lover’s face? Sliding Are there a thousand animals near Or is the breathing that I hear The space from one to ten, From blue to white to grey?
And when I stare into the eyes of extinction Where a memory’s asleep Where it’s unsalvageably deep Will I blend into the water of surrender And be truly, truly gone In annihilation’s splendor?
Hunt me I’ll be running stray from the pack Blood and moonlight glow on my back Want me Come on and give me reason to sing Turn me into anything Confront me Because the choice is clear as ice Between the emptiness, concise And dead, or birth again A chaos shaped like God
Come stare into the eyes of extinction with me And together we might see Another burning of the dawn When it’s empty up in Heaven, there among the last debris Is the seed still green and tender Of a life that’s living on