Blood Upon the Snow

To all things housed in her silence Nature offers a violence The bear that keeps to his own line The wolf that seeks always his own kind The world that hardens as the harsher winter holds The parent forced to eat its young before it grows Every bird, gone unheard Starving where the ground has froze The winter sun rise, red on white Like blood upon the snow Like blood upon the snow The ground walked here is a wonder It ceases never to hunger And all things nature's given She takes all things back from the living I've walked the earth and there are so few here that know How dark the night And just how cold the wind can blow I've no more hunger now to see where the road will go I've no more kept my warmth Than blood upon the snow Blood upon the snow Blood upon the snow Blood upon the snow It's not my arms that will fail me But this world takes more strength than it gave me The trees deny themselves nothing that makes them grow No rain fall, no sunshine No blood upon the snow Blood upon the snow Blood upon the snow Blood upon the snow To all things housed in her silence Nature offers a violence