The Canyon

Sleeping on the Canyon's edge
Dreaming of the fall
Twisting, flailing toward the ledge
And waking from it all

What was this that I had dreamt
The soulless lover's fate
The spurning and the body's lept
This unrequited hate

Cast me into model; stone
The breathing of the sand
And let me be so quite alone
In this unforgiving land

Deep ravine, the river Blood
Flowing from mine heart
Trickle, splashing, flowing, flood
The canyon it does part

Where hath now my lover gone
The silent echo screams
To whence my body was so drawn
Upon thy gilded beams

Sleepless body, get thee rest
Upon the canyon floor
Lonely, lover's light moon crests
For one night, one night more