Welcome to the Underworld

How sublime the time
When we laid in riverbeds
Chanting free be our souls
May the winds carry this whisper

Trust in the rain
To wash away painful days
They’ll smell like dew on the treetops
Years after an echo passes you by

Once you step foot inside
Our woods eats us alive
The voices in the burrows
Recanting come home my lullaby

Our children hear us still
Screeching with the willows whipping here
In drops of melancholy lingering over
Like a skull in the bushes seeing you whole

Warm hearts seek out their home
Do the lost truly wander?
Frost creeps over ancient bones
They hide from man and monster alike