Soul-maker You hear your echo in the echo You see your shadow in the dark An empty vessel from the get-go The arrow somehow sped its mark Dark your light and dark desire The dare that wakes you in the dawn Barely begun the day's on fire Barely grasped and then it's gone Your mind still a city in the night The black universe past the rim of light A sense of need, a student's dread The hunt the drive the breaking through Flash-flood of dazzle hurts your head The rise and fall and then the truth The wheel, the call, the scope of it all The breadth the loss the mute free-fall The atom the cosmos the ocean the tear The reckless glow around the fear The black universe past the rim of light You chose your sorrow over despair You have merged like a bird with the bright air