Pagans

At sundown

In midsummer

When the trees are rich with leaves

 

They light bonfires

And form circles

For the night sky and the trees

 

And they sway in the twilight

To the pounding of the drums

And they dance ‘round the bonfires

Waiting for the Gods to come

 

At midnight

In the darkness

They lay in the grass

 

And they call out

Songs of yearning,

As they watch the darkness pass

 

And they sway in the twilight

To the pounding of the drums

And they dance ‘round the bonfires

Waiting for the Gods to come