I’m very lucky to have known
The places I have roamed;
To learn the minds of people where
The skies are made of stone.
I’m lucky to have had the stars
Companioned by my side;
I’m lucky to have come this far;
I’m lucky to have died
A thousand times to be reborn
Each day upon the throne
Of morning but if you’re not there
When I come back home
It will be as if all was for nought.
You, who came unbidden and unsought.
I heard your laughter in the night
And woke to find your arms as bright
As angels burnished with the glow
Of today, today, and not tomorrow.
Before there was a you there was
Cause enough to die for love;
Love came softly in to give
You to me and me to live
Long enough to see you fair
Who was never anywhere
But beside me, always here,
Waiting for my sight to clear.
I know that I will never know
And that I’ll never be
Thunderheads or buffalo
Or master of the sea.
I know that there are heights I’ve yet
To scale and yet I know
Peace will come to those who fail
And those who sorrow.
For some, the night will bring the height
Of dear felicity;
The errors and the terrors and the sight
That makes us free;
While others weep still others keep
And others others praise
Upon the deep of seamless sleep
The being of our days.
Come dazzle me with all your lore
Of contact and of touch:
You could have stayed inside the door
That shut that shut that shut.
