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on nights like this one
I am fiercely awake
and the darkness lays in me
I rock back and forth
nursing my heartache of days past
remembering, the ones
who gave me life, gave me breath
but cut the tall standing trees
and fled from me,
forcing my retreat
to a dry, loveless riverbed
forcing me to sleep
voiceless and blind, with the wolves
and it was many, many years
before I could see in the dark again
how could you?
how could you
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