Severus and Stone
All the trees stood like skeletonsSilhouettes of spilled inkAnd the snows fell in sheetsAnd got wrapped around our feetWe built the fire evermore with winter beating at the door
Brother's eyes were getting heavierHis bony hands cold and whiteAnd I could hear his ragged breathingLike the wind along a knifeThere beside him through the nightIn the hum of candlelightI no longer felt the time
Brother woke just after midnightAnd he didn't make a soundAnd as he climbed from out of bedWith severed rings around his headHis feet didn't touch the ground
I could feel it thenA tiny miracleSo I followed him into the woodsCrossed beneath the treesBut only I left my prints in towHe was afloatFound a lonely treeAnd tied himself within its limbsAnd he said to me these words:"Don't you fear for me,I am where I'm supposed to be"
When I woke he was goneAnd I was wrapped in blankets on the lawnThe sky was blue and my skin matched the hueAnd I could hear mother crying in your roomFrom here on out I wear this face for both of us