1. You ask me: where is my playful home?
From fire, my wounds' ashes have grown?

2. You ask me where? My home is an echo
Of the grave, its walls built with moan

3. Lost behind the loss of all losses
Behind darkness, behind winds blown

4. There lies my abode on no-abode
In no-tomorrow, in no-flown

5. Beyond wishes where no bud
An embryo nor meeting wings shown

6. I die and songs are born in me
I give them to ruin in grace shown

7. And I dream where visions are cast
On the end of howling and groan

8. Where snakes sell hissing
And pebbles suck the hunger with ease shown

9. Why should I answer? You grow
A question that sprouts the dream of dawn

10. So I listen and hear from no-place
An echo promising my clear tone

11. And I smell a shy summer's harvest
Stuttering on your cheek and blown

12. A charm on my shore your dimples nursed
Suckling, and promises spare shown

13. I turn my ashes into a silent blaze
And on its lips dawn bursts bright shown

14. For we met, and dawns were born
Each star sent us a gown

15. So a home of ecstasy was built for us
Of songs of youth and cheer shown