Glacier Walker

Glacier Walker

Steam rises and converges

The glacier has retreated half a mile from

Where it started

To show us just how much we’ve taken

         

I’ve seen the space where

plates meet edge-to-edge

It hangs right there

Above my head

For all the days

I spend inside

I punish them

In how I try

To sing about the

Ghosts of everyone

I ever was and

Descendants I will never see

But part of me will always be

The bleeding edge born of the earth and

here we are

Do I wait on this moment,

can I count on it?

I can see it in the stars

We’re the only thing I really love

The one thing I can conceive of

I walk the glacier tracing

Ice so old, it’s a black hole

A mirror back into the past

Marching on the odds

that there’s a second paradise

If I could halt your gods

And listen to indifference

From the sleeping heat beneath

The cold above and older than

I could ever hope to see

For all the ways

She gets inside

Pushing her way

to the core of my mind

I can’t escape

The voice won’t lie

She says we’re done

But thinks we should try

The bleeding edge born of the earth and

here we are

Do I wait on this moment,

can I count on it?

I can see it in the scars

We’re the only thing I really love

The one thing I can conceive of

I walk the glacier tracing

Ice so old, it’s a black hole