Blood Stains
(in the wilderness is the preservation of the world...)
Eight legs
Together they run
Freedom of wilderness in their veins
Two throats
They raise their song
Howling praise to sun and moon
One mind
Together they hunt
For a family soon to grow
One heart
Unwavering love
A loyalty that cannot die.
Two legs
crash through virgin brush
Trespassers from another world
Two legs
with weapons of war
and dreams of spilling blood...
One life
together they share
all that this perfect world holds for them
Two souls
entwined into one
he would die for here, she for him
Snow falls
cold settles in
close by her side against the wind...
Life-mates, together they run
what humans have lost, wolves still understand...
Two legs
and a bottle of beer
leaving down the barrel of a gun
two legs
has not come to hunt
to feet mate and family
Two legs
sees this beautiful beast
run carefree through the virgin snow
Two legs
sees nothing at all
but a target to take down...
Four legs
runs ahead through the field
look back with playful eyes at him
young heart
she never suspect
that death looms so near...
Four legs
see unnatural things
extend a limb toward her
Too late
their thunder explodes
he watches her fall...
Blood stains
he follows her down
finds her by scent of her heart
Blood stains
the new fallen snow
she slumps to the ground
Two legs
could never care less
”That’s one less wolf”, they later say
Two legs
has blood on his hands
he left her to die...
Heart screams
as he sees her there
can’t stop her from slipping away
Blood stains
the ground at his feet
Can’t help her as she slips away
Soft wine
at the back of her throat
she tries to great him like before
Heart screams
as his family dies
trapped unmade in her dying form...
Blood stains
his pelt as he lays
down by her side against the wind...
Blood stains
the grey of his fur
he gives her what shelter he can
Heart slows
still wagging her tail
her life drains out into the snow
One life
lies broken in two
he can sense her slip away...
One voice
rises up to the sky
a solemn song of mourning for her
One voice
cries into the wind
for the children he will never know
One soul
forever alone
and yet he will not leave her side
One life
lies broken in two
insides gapes a hole...
Blood stains
the hands of man
with crimes and ignorance and greed
Blood stains
grow darker within
no matter if you turn away
Blood stains
on the soul never fade
for time will not erase these sins
Blood stains
will never come out
until the end of days...
