Swallow your wishes
Like a swallow swallows the wind-
You have only just begun to walk
We heard these things one time too often
Almost like we never heard it at all
We spent the rest of the days thinking,
Deep in diverse musings,
Ears open for deep nothings,
Hopes for meaning dropping from the skies
Like the skies dropped answers as rain,
Like the skies dropped answers as rain
We danced, happy as the sun
Eyes open for all of its brilliance
We lost time; we were never in time
For the first time we had a taste of God
Forgotten moments, one stretched into many others,
Never ending continuum
Till we enveloped the universe,
Till we enveloped the universe:
We made many others
We lost all we came with
Crashing into one other plane-
Before we became gods, we slept
Sit at table with the ages,
Converse with the days, days on end
Days without end, sempiternal stretch
We believed what we believed
Making what we can into what we believed,
And all the rest were true
Like a swallow
We flew like falling stars
Piercing into the mind of wonder,
Truth variables and conflicting paradoxes-
The dead were asleep
While we walked the other sides:
The other sides of reason
Like a swallow
Ashes risen, fiery resurrections
Parallel worlds closing in on each other
It was the discovery of madness,
An awareness of the powers of the mortal mind
Twisting desires, twisted cravings:
They were all given to unnatural uses, one for the other
For want of propriety, inconvenient fates
Shed skins, like shed feathers
Like a swallow
In the end we disappeared
Out, out, out of time
We ceased existence
We believed what we made
Stuck in our own madness, we disappeared
As our wings opened to the sun
Our voices loud, ringing to eternity
Spirit soaring, rushing thunderclaps
Plummeting down earthward
Like a falling star
Like a swallow
Like a swallow swallows the wind
You have looked into the sun, and lived:
You have only just begun to walk
Falling star; now your spirit takes wing,
Wind
Like a swallow
