Winter Blades

Beneath the winter sky we met to sing the winter's song
While golden days of summer slipped away
For summer days and summer ways do not persist for long
And summer falls so quickly by the way

Beneath the falling snows we met and in the winter snow
We learned the winter ways of endless cold
The winter wind that cuts the bone and strips bare all you know
For summer never dares to be so bold

Beneath the sullen stars we met and in the winter night
We bent, we broke, were resurrected whole
In winter all the summer softness withers with the light
And in the darkness winter seeks the soul

Beneath the crescent moon we met and in the moonlight died
Across the snow our blood ran red and warm
The cold of winter cut us down and left us side by side
For winter wind to raise us in the morn

Beneath the pallid sun we rose a resurrected horde
With blood of ice we took up winter's arms
We swept across the frozen landscape, winter's deadly swords
Assassins of the summer's waking charm

Beneath the winter night we hunted down the summer days
And slaughtered them beneath the morning night
We found the summer stronghold where the sleeping summer lay
And closed the winter's ranks around the site

Beneath the summer canopy we drew the winter's swords
And set upon the summer with our blades
Destruction took the summer palace on the golden sward
And left the summer kingdom disarrayed

Beneath the winter sky we stood, the triumph of the cold
The summer lying broken at our feet
And summer days and summer ways will never now grow old
Forever stands the winter of defeat

01-11-13