A Silence Song

So much silence
 Stretching above me
 Around me too
 Has it deafened me?
 Has it closed my ears?
 Has the silence itself brought about this rapture?
 Between silence and sound
 Between the cry and the cull
 If man raises one voice
 I'll raise two then
 One for loss
 One for losing
 One for death and one for birth
 I may hang bloody-torn
 On this tree of moss
 Though my grimace
 Cuts my grin
 I'll rise triumphant
 I'll rise triumphing
 You won't catch me
 I fly unseen
 Through the wind of the worlds
 Missiles cut space
 Spearing the starlight
 Masking the moon
 Wide of the march
 Give me two reasons to stay here
 Lost light, lost love
 Smudge the tracks
 And smother the traces
 Of the fires
 Of your fear
 Near the
 Under the
 Beside the
 Beyond the flowers
 Then further still
 The children lie in silent space
 Wind shivers through
 Their corn-burnt hair
 Silence immaculate
 If they move
 From silence to sound
 Will the world shudder?
 Will my heart stop?
 In a cave, in her maze
 The spring slides
 Through my sadness
 And my winter
 The stars have now frozen into space
 The stars have molten into space
 The children wait
 Flowers around
 Burnish their hair
 With brazen gold
 And heart-red rose
 If I move, then I shall stop
 How have the sightless fallen
 I'll shall take a knife to your heart
 I'll take a knife to your heart
 I'll- I'll take a knife to your- to your heart
 And London Bridge no longer remains
 Christ's face refracted through the sky
 Then cuts up into different shapes