Audio Version

Remember the precious seconds

There is no one

To tie you down

You are only an animal under these trees,

Listening to the cicadas clicking

The two faces you wear

Are an archetypal artifact

You’re the person you hate

Two horns and a dolphin tail

Swimming through shadows

There is no one

Except one

You’re the person you love

Everyone can relax now

Excuses, excuses

Won’t take away bruises

But you fulfil your role

As the bearer of curses

Come, say the spaces

Come to the wild places

Watch the mirror of the moon

Praised in every phase

Oh, Narcissus’ soul-mate

The person you love to hate

Come outside, within

Is a foreign forest of familar feasting

Make me an instrument

Of placid temperament

And elastic sentiment

And ecstatic armament

Remember this precious second

The sheep and the goats are the gate

There is no one to punish

Everyone is an escape

We are animal, vegetable, mineral

Listening, still