Elemental

It's lone here, cold here
Can't he just go home
So dark here, and wrong here
He has no where to go

The snow dances in circles
The ice, it covers his fur
The wind whistles in aspens
His breath melts into mist

As his feet pound in snow
tracks follow close behind
The smile of vile darkness
closes in each side

Faster, in land of dream
or, perhaps, nightmare
He ran and ran and ran
until his heart simply slowed

And stopped within his chest
his body lay belly down
his nose still smelling the void
he was 'knee-deep' in death

'Forgive me comrades'
his spirit seemed to sing
'for i have left the forest
To run for those in hell.'

Eye out for the bitter dark
nose up for the harbored deeds
Blackness fades away to gray
Then, in time, to white.

Brightness hurts the amber eyes
warmth engulfs the soul
at once he follows the light
and there, before him; bliss.

'Me comrades, listen.
The whistling wind is me
with my fellow canines
here in eternal heaven.'

'Once I was wicked
but through forgiveness
I am now a free dog
Here within happiness.'

'I am the calm in water
I am the sound song
The cold in the winter
The warmth with in the sun.'