Remember
when
The
world was new
The
darkness was a
Sacrament
of light
Come
away star
To the
far edge of
The field
To the
forest glen
Called
upon cold
Triptych
Whether
with you
Or
planked from
Indecision
rounding a
Necessary
Complement
all is
Not
lost
Not
even his feeling nameless
Fear his
monument of
Murmured
Meaning
stretched
Across
the soul’s expanse
And
all the thirsty
Drank
of it.
It’s
fairly simple
When
you take a step
Back
from haste everything
You
stockpile will
One
day drift away
Be
careful what they ask you
To do
One
day they will
Call
upon you to sacrifice
Your
soul;
Intense
young people
Accumulating
gadgets
Numbers
and words
They
all must be shed
One
way or another
Layers
of dust on
A
crystal gem
Fairly
aware that I
Come
and go at will
From
the other side this life
Is but
a clinical ecstasy of an
Ocean
rippling free and more
Distant
than a howling call
Homeless
spirit rattling coins
In a
coffee cup wisdom
More
than knowledge spent
Lying
beside you was more
Difficult
than
Any
other I shed
Bodies
in a manner
Such
as a snake
Sheds
its skin.
All
that he has known
Of
sorrow
Came
wrapped in that
Rain
and shadow sky
Everything
he bought or
Borrowed
flew down
Across
the wood alone
With faithful
leaves that
Fell
only yesterday
Or
earlier today;
If
only he had known
The
cost of keeping
Up
appearances
He
wouldn’t bother
Sending
distances away
He
wouldn’t
Calculate
the interest on
A debt
he couldn’t pay
For in
his dreaming heart
He
understands the
Only
truth a mind can
Never know;
His
everlasting
Expanding
self is so
Much more
than
A
piece of cloth
A clod
of earth
And together
with it
All
the same
His
necessary
Inmost
self is beyond
These dim
impersonations
Of his
only watching eye,
And even
though he finds that
All is
lost
In his
dreaming heart
He
knows that he is one
With every
fallen leaf and
Every dark
wet night
For he
is one with all in all.
