Husk

Death sings
River rising
Stone hollowed
Death is a husk
Drying out
A field in heat
Sunblind

I am opening
Trillium hums
I am growing
Understories

Death sings
Leaves lilting the light
Death is a thread
Measuring time
Burning a candle
Guiding a life
To be alive

I am (I am)
Decaying (Decaying)
Within me, without me
I am (I am)
An elegy (An elegy)
Memory echoing

Death is a husk
Holding the shape of my life