The Battle to Heaven - Mono

«Ever changing, growing, and searching through stretches of time beyond life

and death

This is the journey that every soul makes

My journey always brings me to the place between wake and sleep

A landscape of memories where you and I meet again and again

Even in the darkest night, in the heaviest storm, I always find my way back to

you

When you remember, please come back to the place we both know.»

Reading her words again that night, the man falls asleep to find himself

walking inside of the same tunnel.

He paces fiercely with his arms outstretched

as if he is pushing against the wind.

The air smells of burnt pine and evening

frost as the end is near in sight.

When he guides himself out into the light,

his hands brush against a rough surface, much taller and wider than he can

reach.

What lies on the outside of the tunnel is a fully-grown tree surrounded

by a circle of white stones.

He drops to his knees, touching its roots and

turning over each stone in disbelief

Recovering a lost memory is like a dam breaking open, releasing all the water

that had been barricaded from flowing.

As he sits here, every moment with her

in these woods resurfaces within him.

He holds a stone in his hands and weeps

as he remembers their promise