midnight's sun into the valley stumbles

mountains echo the heart's welcome knell

pagan gods stare blind across the sea

the sea brings sweet darkness back to me

ingress  twilight our fingers write with dew

interlocking dreams egress the night

through oceans of laughter through a fog of fears

tearing through the forest into the softest lair

dancing past the midnight chimes

waves surge the cliffs with the moon

down the shore and into the starlight

i exchange my old world for the new

naked now our skins are crawling 

we sit in our bones looking out from the hill

face pressed against the window

the snow is melting and the earth is still

-Nausher Banaji