Fortress Without Doors
Eric Howden
First contact
Small black windowpane i fogged with
Warm breath
Inside a fortress
Without doors
A hunter
Ceiling lifting as her snow white
Wings spread
Her eyes bright emeralds
Just like yours
Were
Dawn finds a dazed animal
Blinking in the light
This can’t be the
Same sky
I fell for
Last night
Through cold wind
Leaning into forces i don’t
Understand
I’m ripping chains out of the floors
And climbing high
Like i could emerge above
The avalanche
We were alive one year beforе
This
Building impossible walls
Learning to survive
This can’t bе the same sky
I fell for
Last night
Fly the secret frontier
No cover
No fear
No Others
I’m here
Our moon seems so near
Salt in the air
Life in my hands
Slow motion animals
Carry me home