Ashes

I see you all - from the street where I lay,

shot through with a roaring thunder-

still it sounds far away.

Heart pale as the moon, body thin as the wind,

remove me, the dust on your windowpane.

What is my name but a sign on a wall?

No time for fear or anger, no answer when I call.

I rise like smoke to the sun, erase the light like a cloud.

Disturb me, the ash beneath your feet.

Now tomorrow's too late for me

In the 9th moon of the year.

Set a course to a blinding sun with sails afire.

If I asked you to wait for me, the wind is all you'd hear.

I am nowhere and everywhere and I wait for ever.

I heard it all, while the Summer turned to Fall.

Heard you cry out in blind confusion

at the foot of the castle wall.

I reach for your hand through the fire

while silence explodes into light,

cold as the stones beneath your feet.