Allfather, how can we help you?

How can we bring you wondrous notions?

Allfather, how do we read you?

How do we will you godly emotions?

Eye for a lie, tooth for a truth

Hang from the branches, above the well

Nine days pass in the blink of one eye

One eye in heaven, the other in hell

Allfather, learn from the symbols

Born in these waters, a gift for the giving

To others who fawn at the feet of the master

And bathe in the presence, the dead and the living

The heavy door closed with a thud

The vast and book-lined hallowed halls

Sucks me in with endless breath

With steady heartbeats to install me

At the gate of all there is

And all there was, as best we know

From pen to paper, man to child

The gift of learning's afterglow

Afterglow

Afterglow

Allfather