Midnight Sun

I have seen ancient rivers of silver

Glacial plains fading into blue light

I have stood on frozen thunder

Hunched in storms through an endless night

Voices call from a howling wasteland

“Feel your hunger and hold your tongue

Surrender here your fatal yearning

There’s no shelter for those who come to the midnight sun.”

Winter steals beneath a rainbow curtain

Oceans freeze, the weeks melt into the years

I’ve scaled heights of beauty and wonder

Known despair and the depths of fear

Stumbling wide at the limits of the compass

Fur and canvas in the wilderness of pain

You can lose your mind in the panic of snow blindness

Icy winds strike you deaf and numb at the midnight sun

None but cowards seek badges of courage

Only fools seek the trappings of fame

There’s no conquest, just an endless striving

There’s no glory, just a restless flame

No man’s land, white desert, ice mountains

Beyond the pole, let the reckless come

Bathed in light, an infinity of silence

Cleanse the soul, leave the senses stunned, at the midnight sun