effigies

Where does the moment go that you have witnessed? Where does the moment go that you have seen? I found it in my life as a rambler Burning in an effigy of trees The shadow boxing spirit of my childhood Had all but grown old and cold and bare But then the tears fell like embers From those effigies burning everywhere There's no chains upon the ocean For its blue will surpass any line It's you, I still come to Beneath the million burning effigies of time I had tamed perhaps in vain my true compassion My faith withered wildly on the vine When everyone you meet, takes a little piece Soon enough there's nothing left behind But so came the morning Like the dawning of all time And there were you, my great defender Those effigies burning in your eyes Now the trees are bleedin yellow in the twilight As the horizon snakes its way across my sight There's a red dirt road headed nowhere and a desert bird perched right on my soul Broader than the cosmos You are now all sight and all sound Here am I, gratefully wounded As your effigy is scattered on the ground Here am I, woundedly grateful As your effigy is scattered all around