Snowdancing
Possesses my soul
I am slipping
On the snow
My blue heart
Is white with horror
My sweet dream's
A dream of sorrow
I wish
I were not an owl -
Keen and strong
Until the dawn
My fear
Will disappear
When I know
That the night is near
But I'm shot
By a fatal arrow,
A sniggering gnome's
Caught in the snow
He's sneering me down,
His mind snow-bound,
He is my lot,
A snake in the snow
His smouldering soul's
Smothering my hope
Smiting me with horror
He's getting in my road
But still snowdancing
Is everywhere around
The snow's falling down,
It's touching the ground
It reigns in the world,
It's whirling about
It's reinless like a wild horse,
It's soft as down
It says:
"I'm so close,
But you cannot see me,
You hear my coming
While your body's dreaming"