Flight Of The Owl

Silent watcher in the midnight air
Carving paths through branches bare
Veiled in shadow, eyes like fire
Drifting where the winds conspire

Veiled in shadow, eyes aglow
A riddle drifting far below
Who hears the whispers when no one's awake?
Who reads the runes in the rippling lake?

Feathers weave through the veil of time
Tracing paths no stars define
What secret song does the hunter sing
On whispering wings in the void unseen?

Moonlight bends where the omen glides
A cryptic cipher the darkness hides
Through hollow winds and spectral streams
It haunts the corners of olden dreams

Who sees the shape in the shifting night?
Who knows the truth in a phantom's flight?

Not of earth, nor bound by sky
A shade that watches, passing by
Between the worlds, beyond the eye
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Silent watcher in the midnight air
Gone before you knew it was there