The Snow Leopard

The way is to climb

The way is to lie still

And let the moon do

Its work on your body

And then to rise

Forests and oceans of lives

And through the way

Of the black rocks splitting wide

And flow ten thousand miles

Well, I've had enough

Wasting my body, my life

I'll come away

Come away from the shallows

Can this sullen child

As bound as the ox that I ride

Climb to the heart

Of the white wind singing high

And blow my frozen eyes?