The Snow Leopard - Shearwater

The way is to climb

The way is to lie still

And let the moon do its work on your body

And then to rise

Through forests and oceans of lives

And through the way of the black rocks

Splitting, wide

And flow

Ten thousand miles."

Well, I’ve had enough

Wasting my body, my life

I’ll come away, come away from the shallows

But can this sullen child

As bound as the ox that I ride

Climb to the heart of the white wind

Singing, high

And blow

Through my frozen eyes?