Darkness Comes and Silver Fades

Silvery streams of quiet light fall softly upon the vale
As midnight treds on starlit paths and the moon is cold and pale

Gazing down on shadowed court and stony walks of man
Sighing for the moor and tree which lie in human hand

Shine on she must, shine on she shall, though pain grips at her soul
For death and bane descends on earth, destruction takes its toll

Yet in the mist of human strife, amidst the waves of sin
A hope is kindled, flame renewed, where silver streams have been

One lone lady striding forth through glen and cot and tree
A tear falls down her lily cheek, a broken silent plea

She bends to lift a fallen limb to find a shattered heart
And sees the blow that man has made to tear their world apart

To her knees the maiden falls as echoes fill her mind
Terrored scream and hallowed sigh, the warcry of mankind

And silvery streams of quiet light fall softly on the maiden
As midnight treds on darkened paths, her heart is heavy laden

Her Mother's body raped and burned, her heart hears whispered moans
As humankind destroys the land and pale moon looks on

Emerald hills and golden shores and waves of pearly foam
They take what e're their greed can hold, she sees it all as home

'Take it, take it, never give' their cruel smiles cut her
'Slash it, burn it, take it all' and she cannot deter

One lone lady listens still to tree and wind and fey
A tear drifts down her ashen cheek, as down her head she lay

Her ear is pressed to Mother's sod, she hears the stifled cry
As poison flows through Mother's veins and torment fills the sky

What can she do, this one lone maid, who sees the earth in pain
Remembers yet her Mother's face, the voice of wind and rain

Upwards to the moon she turns, Grandmother gazing down
Reads her heart and hears her soul and sets her starry crown

Years shall pass and wax and wane and yet she walks the earth
One lone lady, broken still, sees no peace nor mirth

And silver streams of quiet light fall softly on the vale
As midnight treds on starlit paths, the moon is cold and pale