Soul-maker
You hear your echo in the echo
You see your shadow in the dark
An empty vessel from the get-go
The arrow somehow sped its mark
Dark your light and dark desire
The dare that wakes you in the dawn
Barely begun the day's on fire
Barely grasped and then it's gone
Your mind still a city in the night
The black universe past the rim of light
A sense of need, a student's dread
The hunt the drive the breaking through
Flash-flood of dazzle hurts your head
The rise and fall and then the truth
The wheel, the call, the scope of it all
The breadth the loss the mute free-fall
The atom the cosmos the ocean the tear
The reckless glow around the fear
The black universe past the rim of light
You chose your sorrow over despair
You have merged like a bird with the bright air
