take it all away lay bare my bones
no sight no sounds to hear with wooden ears
make me a corpse as cold as darkened moon
and from there
teach me to be a stone, to be dust
teach me to be the metal blind to rust
the tree whose wisdom stays where life does not
whose wood is no less soulful rife with rot
take it all away all I hold dear
my life my skin my eyes my brain my fear
teach me love of silence
lust for death
and song without breath for this is love
for this is truth
for this is god