I will give you hope-birds

Be not afraid, you who walk down roads of night time

Be not afraid, you who dance in the valleys of the sun

Be not afraid, you who kiss in pools of starlight

Be not afraid, you who laugh where rivers run

There is a joy that cannot be unwoven

There is a song that cannot be unsung

There is love that cannot be unwritten

Yet there are parts of life that should not be rerun

When our sadness is most unspoken

And sleeps within us, water-tight and cold

It is then that we must tear asunder

All that might be bought and sold

For naught is there that we might remember

When we are ill and growing old

I will give you hope-birds to break your heart open

You will give me light-oil to pour into my soul

I will gather you from your pieces

Together we will make a whole

For I will walk with you as the moon rises 

I will dance with you in the face of the setting sun

I will kiss you until the stars rain down from heaven

Around your eyelashes, my song will hum