Our hidden love is wilder than we know

A let out breath of evergreen and spruce

We cannot hold we could not ever hold

Before I was your love I was that loose

And captivating dark I was unnamed

I was the shake of fur on shaggy buttes

And rivers swollen with the sheeting rains

And I have been the valleys that were drowned

And I have been the mountain that remains

As brown and certain as a muddy mound

That lived its lifetime in a rocky brook

Before I was your love we were the ground

Where through the heated centuries we shook

Beneath life's smoky undulating plume

Watched men like starfish spinning in the soot

Where life throws up its colors in a bloom

And earth will take their ashes back again

Each certain that his time has come too soon

But how we can forget these things my friend

Beneath the clanging changing of the hour

Where clambering word over word and hand over hand

In endless search of permanence and power

In hurry as if the throne were never far away

We trample over perfect blazing flowers

I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake

The glinting willows stop me where I stand

I can remember long forgotten names

I can remember stretching wide my hands

To summon something sentient and strange

Our fire beating back the dark we call

All human only this side of the change

From something into something else

I fall into the space between their names

The age of mountains the age of waterfalls

Must flood our human frames the age

Of oceans drown the sound of clocks in singing whales

The dreamer turns the page

There on the evening shore we stop to talk

Where crabs bend their machinery to pray

The moonlight carving faces in the rock

The city's cloak of noises falls away

The ocean tumbles tossing in its bed

I hear its fiery waves

I taste its spray

I touch your fiery cheek I taste the red

Of our lives' rivers singing as they go

To meet the midnight sea where they were bred

Colossal tideline generous and slow

Our hidden love is wilder than we know