I gently lean into the door bitting down on my tongue as it creaks open

The brisk air bitting back at my face, shooting up my sleeves

Restless to take my first step, yet wavering to enter the cold

I feel my body grow tense as the cold sinks in, trapped under the restriction of my fleece with no escape

I look up past the cloud of fog created by my own breath

I see the silver dance of the sky and...

Sonne, Vögel, Wind

Ihalleren

Erwartung

Is it enough

No, not enough to pull me from this sweet bliss

What temptation can be found in the whaling siren that seeks to lure me from such paradise

My head so content to rest upon velvet clouds

So content I lie above the rain; still basking in the warm glow

The ache is my soothing release

Lest I lower my feet to the earth

That I might feel sharp ...

Mysterious

Daunting, Taunting

The eerie cries drowned out by the silence

Perhaps the rays yet pierce the sky

Reason would say not a single light abounds

Enveloped in silence

No glimmer broke through the vault

The towering beams choking out the invader

What once contained branches of life

now turned to stone; cold, hard, petrified

A prayer arose to the cry of the onlookers

They had grown ...