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I will remember my Dreams

Here in the country

I wake up in silence and alone

chasing the visions

That flee into a wildness I have known

frustrated I wonder

at the retreating scenes inside my mind

affirming in darkness

to retrieve light that darkness leaves behind

I will remember my dreams

I will remember...

Here in the city

fear walks upright in the shapes of men

screaming into the distance

between the inner and the outer alien.

says; "if dreams are like memories

what do we remember when we dream?

and what do we dream

when we remember?"

I will remember my dream

I will remember...

On a beach on an island

staring out through leaves at a throbbing sea

I cried for my vision

and I heard my vision sing for me

"you wish to awaken

to things as they are not as they seem.

are they truly awakened

who cannot remember what they dreamed?

do not wake up in silence

do not wake up in darkness and alone;

you are dreaming with others.

sing to them the vision you are shown..."

that is all I remember

do you remember more--you were there with me--

we were all dreaming together

when the sun met the moon on the shimmering sea...

We will remember our Dream

We will remember...

Touch

I've seen them kissing

in every conceivable way;

flesh of the evening

pressed close against the flesh of day

call it love or passionate lust

either way you know that they must...touch

Time just be patient

cause Space is playing coy again

both of them waiting

neither one knowing where or when

know enough or else you can trust

that they already if only just...touch

Old Good and Evil;
true virtue and the vilest sin

fight like the devil
or like the angels in the end

root for good but evil you trust

still it's odd how both of them must...touch

how can we touch now

when inwardly we're far apart?

how can our bodies minds and souls be

brought into communion with our hearts?

how can we--but somehow we must:

for us "to be" and "not to be" must...touch

The Door

(new song)

A cheerful sky

A feral cry

A glimmering of day

I'm out

And following

The paths of earth

Of mellow clay

Damp verdure smiles at me

Insouciant affection wild

The taste of plantain leaves

Deep golden inside me

A dream of Thirst

Awakens first

Then the reality

I rise

And wondering

If my life will be

A comedy

of only two and forty years

My hearts gone wild and dizzy

But my soul composedly

Smiles at the irony

Chorus:

And there's a door

Before me

I could knock or walk away

It would be so very easy

Just to stroll right past into arms of clay

Ah but oh

don't worry

There is so much left to do

And I'm only just beginning

to keep my word to you...

How strange it is

reliving all

Of someone elses life

Tableaux

Scenarios

I witness them

But only know

What I've learned to memorize

A tracing of reality
A dream, dreams disguise

Yes, a dreams disguise....

Bridge:

Glory, Quiet Glory, Glory

Sailing into shore

Meaning itself arrives reminding me

Who is Being what and what is Being for

whole lifetimes of contingency

dissolving at your door...

This moments like

A Kansas June

The sky over my head

erased

Dimensionless

A dangerous

Dark thunderhead

Of otherworldly love

Is whorling all around me

No below and no above

To fear or be unworthy of...

And there's a door

Before me

I could knock or walk away

It would be so very easy

Just to stroll right through into arms of day

Ah but oh

don't worry

There is so much left to do

And I'm only just beginning

to keep my word to you...



I-P Odori