the woods

Extraordinary animation by Rima Staines and haunting music by Polly Paulusma.

The summer sun plays on the ground 
I feel it in my leaves  
The sap is rising up my veins  
There’s pollen on the breeze
I saw it all crystal clear 
I know who brought those children here
The badgers tried to keep them warm  
The foxes gave them milk  
Woodpeckers tried to hammer a home  
The spiders spun them silk
I saw it all crystal clear  
I know who brought those children here
No path out marked out with round white stones  
No Guardian Angel to lead them home 
Find them quick  
Research before they disappear
The bracken folds down into mulch  
The mushroom sprouts and spore  
The berries swell and ripe, now burst  
To carpet my forest floor
I saw it all crystal clear  
I know who brought those children here
Lost and lonely, here all is still  
If you don’t take them, the earth surely will  
Find them quick  
Research before they disappear
The winter wind howls through my arms  
My brooks begin to freeze  
My secrets now lie blanketed  
Beneath the moldering leaves
I saw it all crystal clear 
I know who left those children here