She woke
in the forest of dreams,
where the strange wind blew,
where the old stones moaned,
it was a holy yet haunted place,
she feared it yet loved it, it was the realm
of ghosts, dreams, mystery, a strange shift
in the reality of the stars and the endless chariots
of the moon, her body throbbed, grew wild, grew pure,
she knew she had the power, she knew old terrors
drew near, her scent was on the wind, flaring the desire
of strange and unruly alien nightmares and beasts,
but dawn's first fingers were her ally,
stirring the whirlpool colours as they fled across
the sharp mountains and flooded the pulsing plain,
dream catchers, dream catchers, they scratched at the air,
they scratched at the corners of her existence like the ripe
seeds of the fertile valleys, like the castles, turrets
and iridescent towers of the poets luminous in the night,
the ghosts sought her tears like some strange elixir,
like some magic pathway leading back to the dances
and warm wombs of the living, she leapt toward the sun,
her fingers stretched skyward with all the infinite grace
and harmony throbbing in the centre of each of her atoms,
she leapt, she leapt, she was the dancer, the bright maiden,
the purest of all hopes, the dark secrets deep in midnight,
and the flash of Immortal Eyes...
--NorthPoet, from VISION RIDER...