Stars - Ayla Nereo

Across valleys folding, across waters frozen

Across the time between my dawn and your setting sun

These are stories blowin', these words tender showin'

How can I touch the shape of wing-binding's falling ‘way

Oh tongue, set you free, and oh mind let it be

Oh land, teach me how to lay in the storming wind

Across hearts aching, across skies a-breaking

Across the time between our suns

I’m lost in your stars

By the light of the dark moon

Just be as you are, just do as you do

By grace and devotion

By lettin go, lettin go overything

By breath as it takes you

By the light of the dark moon

I’m lost in your stars

Two-toned, moment wide, breathing, stay with it

I aim for the place between all longing and letting be

Speaking honeywine, making wishes star-side

These are the arrows in the battle of becoming

Make me a warrior hummingbird, disarming

You be a compass to guide this flight

Take me surrendered, fill me to spilling over

The roots of this endless sky

I’m lost in your stars…