Starlight flickering A fire in the night Human misery The ultimate source of strength Peripheral glimmering Of the growing flames Hibernation Veins hot with eternal blood The subtle sound Pyre crackling Drifts of snow Slowly melting away And returning to ice Surrounded by steam Inhaling nocturnal fog Beasts howling at the moon Nature buried under snow Breathing silently Under the frost Under the frost Hibernation Might veiled for centuries Sleeping with passion and patience To be once awakened By malicious call Of a starless eternity An entity free of form Darkness without breath