DREAM-POP TWO

Come ships, go / Snowily sailing / Perfect silence / Absolute ocean

I am leaving / Where are you going, Bodhisattva? / I don’t know.

I am leaving / How can I follow? / Just follow the Tao / I don’t know how.

Easy for you, Lao-tzu / Follow the eternal Tao.

My soul is a vagabond minstrel that never twice the same song will sing

(I’ll be a Navajo, and then an Eskimo. I’ll be a tree , I’ll be a buzzing bee.)

Atop the hill, across the years

To the house at the edge of forever - my house,

With the large windows and unlocked doors

And the porphyry carpets.

Upon them falls no dust of days.

And the neighbors who love me, and smile as I pass:

“Welcome home!” Oh, I cannot abide here, so close to all yesterdays.

Then stands the house in shadows long. Alone the boy, the father of tears.

He is leaving / I am returning

He is riding a magical carousel where it’s always hello and goodbye

Up and down all around on the carousel where it’s always hello and goodbye

Hello and goodbye.

Come ships, go / Snowily sailing / Perfect silence / Absolute ocean