Glaciers

Awaken the wolves
For my dreams have grown too quiet once again
Give me howling of footsteps
As time ambles drunk over tundra-glazed earth

Somewhere in the snow
Are the frozen tears and the teeth that battle broke
Twelve winters ago
When aging was living and murder was birth

Taste the cells dividing
All to come and all that's been
See the glaciers fighting
Melting over, pushing underneath your skin

Surrender your warmth
To find where ice crystals end and body starts
We walk the line
Between breath and wind and death and gravity

Awaken the martyr inside
And the ground that's solid, cold, and petrified
Before I open my eyes
Can you thaw this away and give my past to me?

Taste the cells dividing
All to come and all that's been
See the glaciers fighting
Melting over, pushing underneath your skin

Awaken the wolves
When the January moon needs lullabies

Awaken the wolves
When the sun's bright passion cannot reach the skies

Awaken the wolves
'Cause we're all alone here on the plains of frost

Awaken the wolves
And when we wake ourselves, shall winter's memory be lost?

Taste the cells dividing
All to come and all that's been
See the glaciers fighting
Melting over, pushing underneath your skin