Follow the Moonbeams

Running silent, heart pounding
Like my feet upon the track
Keeping focused straight ahead
Not daring to look back

I hear him breathing hard
As he searches for my trail
But light as a feather I go
It's one race I can't fail

Hours by now have passed
I'm wandering by the streams
I'm tired, but a voice speaks
"Child, follow the moonbeams."

So I look up to the sky
Then follow white lines down
And there I find my way home
Dancing upon the ground

I dart after these figures
As the stay a step ahead
Each time I run they leap
One step farther from death

I feel my eyes are closing
Just a moment of sleep and dreams
But once again I hear a voice,
"Please child, follow the moonbeams."

So I push myself and go
With what's left of me it seems
Safely away from my captor
I sleep beneath the moonbeams.