So much silence   Stretching above me   Around me too   Has it deafened me?   Has it closed my ears?   Has the silence itself   Brought about this rapture?   Between silence and sound   Between the cry and the cull   If man raises one voice   I'll raise two then   One for loss   One for losing   One for death   And one for birth      I may hang bloodytorn   On this tree of moss   Though my grimace   Cuts my grin   I'll rise triumphant   I'll rise triumphing   You won't catch me   I fly unseen   Through the wind of the worlds   Missiles cut space   Spearing the starlight   Masking the moon   Wide of the march      Give me two reasons to stay here   Lostlight lostlove   Smudge the tracks   And smother the traces   Of the fires of your fear      Near the   Under the   Beside the   Beyond the flowers   Then further still   The children lie   In silent space   The wind shivers through   Their cornburnt hair      Silence immaculate   If they move   From silence to sound   Will the world shudder   Will my heart stop   In a cave   In her maze   The spring slides   Through my sadness   And my winter      (The stars have now frozen into space)   (The stars have molten into space)      The children wait   Flowers around   Burnish their hair   With brazen gold   And heartred rose   If I move   Then I shall stop   (How have the sightless fallen)   I'll take a knife to your heart   I'll take a knife to your...   I'll take a knife to your...   (And London Bridge no longer remains;   Christ's face refracted through   The sky then cuts up into   Different shapes...)