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Purple clouds overhead

Is this dusk or dawn?

Bind blood to blood

Bind bone to bone

Bind man to time to wound to plight

Weary - misty and dull

A golden age gone by

Bind blood to blood

Bind bone to bone

Bind man to wealth to home to man

Loss for names - pealing night

An orchid’s sin.

A tardy beast lays dozing in the murk

My treble debt.

Bind blood to blood

Bind bone to bone

Bind man to debt to land to death

The outside sobs a song of grave despair

A piece of night in my shape

A ghost, like you, I tramp the night

Broken, broken.