Orion the Hunter
The Lonely Glow
With attribution to four old friends I knew when I was in college and law school back in the 90s, who wrote and performed this song countless times for friends and fans during a transformative period in all our lives. I never paid much attention to the lyrics until decades later. But the band and their music were ahead of their time — maybe too far ahead of their time. They disbanded well over a decade ago, but their music and all those live performances that lifted us up all those years ago will always live on our memories.
I can see the children on the shore
Briefly halting play to waive me on.
See no more than salt among the sand,
The source of where I’m going and have gone.
It hurts to see a grown man laugh
Because he feels he can’t afford to cry.
From Betelgeuse to Edelweiss
And the points of import in between
Hunters all, through salt and sand
For stars and garlands.
There’s a lonely glow
That only horizons and fathers know.
A broken bow-
That only Orion the Hunter holds.
Never hunting in the current world,
My nets remaining empty but for doubt.
See no more than salt among the sand.
As always, I am laughing my eyes out.
It hurts to be a hunter hunting
Somehow forgetting how to cry.
From Betelgeuse to Edelweiss
And the points of import in between.
Hunters all, through salt and sand
For stars and garlands.
There’s a lonely glow
That only horizons and fathers know.
A broken bow
For only Orion the Hunter.
A lonely glow
That only horizons and fathers know
A broken bow -
For only Orion the Hunter.
Glen Hines is the author of six books, including the recently published Welcome to the Machine, all available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. His writing on sports, the outdoors, military service, and the bright and dark sides of American culture has been featured in Sports Illustrated, The Concussion Legacy Foundation, Task and Purpose, The Human Development Project, Kirkus Book Reviews, and elsewhere. Kirkus Reviews recently called Welcome to the Machine “An often-compelling examination of a sport’s sins from a man with an insider’s view.” He was inducted into the Authors Guild in 2022.
