Time, As a Symptom

(Mourning Dove calls) Time passed hard And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do But she forgot The moment she saw you So it would seem to be true: When cruel birth debases, we forget When cruel death debases We believe it erases all the rest That precedes But stand brave, life-liver Bleeding out your days In the river of time Stand brave: Time moves both ways In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating Joy of life; The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating Joy of life The moment of your greatest joy sustains: Not axe nor hammer Tumor, tremor Can take it away, and it remains It remains And it pains me to say, I was wrong Love is not a symptom of time Time is just a symptom of love (and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating Joy of life; The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating Joy of life) Hardly seen, hardly felt– Deep down where your fight is waiting Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading: Joy of life Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it; Bow like the field when the wind combs through it: Joy of life And every little gust that chances through Will dance in the dust of me and you With joy-of-life And in our perfect secret-keeping: One ear of corn In silent, reaping Joy of life Joy! Again, around–a pause, a sound–a song: A way a lone a last a loved a long A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend (Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.) A shore, a tide, unmoored–a sight, abroad: A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god) No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend! White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend! White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: transcend! White star, white ship–Nightjar, transmit: trans-