We
dreaming light and waking in the dark
perpetually relive The Fall
eternally recreate Creation
sun dance
receive revelation
asleep and awake--all
We
lost in the belly of the whale
seduced like Europa
carried over ocean swells
Leda in the rushes
crushed under the swan's white weight
Dante in the dark wood
la direta via era smarita
Abandoning hope
emerging into starlight
It’s all true for you and me
(and everyone we know)
Look!
See if is not so--
being human amid polarities
And we have trod the earth--an armed race
with fire to illuminate or incinerate
since forever
we carry and create images
of exile
of paradise
longing to return
