Earthly Fears

Nine nights I hung On the wind-bitten tree Bound by a spear Myself to myself The bread they gave Poisoned mead Watching the darkness As my veins bleed Below me stirred The runes in fire They rose through the bark They rose through the flames I grasped, as I knew The songs of power The tongues of stone The words of the fire The wise one sees With a single eye The dead god lives Hhe does not die No man carved me But I carved men No hand saved me I reached within I reached within