By the magic mountain forest

There's a chorus of birds and laughing waves.

I'd never know that it was midnight

With the blue light neon on the lake.

I hear my bones, my blood, my teeth,

My breath, collide with emptiness.

Bright forms, bright faith, bright-colored

Dreams of death and peace and restlessness.

On the far side of the water

I dreamed my brother was waiting there for me.

He said, "I wish for you this silence,

Behind the eyelids," then melted into the trees.

I hear my bones, my blood, my teeth,

My breath, collide with emptiness.

Bright forms, bright faith, bright-colored

Dreams of death and peace and restlessness.

My brittle heart is slowly mending,

With every ending I've learned to drink this fear.

Picking shrapnel from my body,

It's a lot to be human, to be here.