Outer Dark

Stone child wants
With a banished heart
Hear and circle and cry
In this outer dark

Dust hands cupping sands
Their eyes can not see
Bring dead breath answers
To your shallow dreams

Ragged rider, down
From the barren hills
Have you come to bury
What their silence killed?

Has he seen beyond
Where all echoes die
He'll never wipe the vastness
From his eyes... his tearing eyes

Once you've seen beyond
Where all echoes die
You'll never wipe the vastness
From your eyes... your tearing eyes