The Other End Of The World
And the other end of the world was a wonderful
place, a place where we had music flowing, water trapping to
the rhythm things that take us forever to be free....birds of
paradise uncoveted by the desires of consent, pools of liquidity
moving into the sun, showing off and unashamed, dreaming of
two by two being four and all the other common men or uncommon
greed, taking time and space to discover the trouble of self
discovery, the pain of being up and down and alone and in concert
with another one or two or three, the company of elders respected
and loved....the terrible affair of living now and not then
- future or past....swirling into and out of love and lovers
past and present, learning the future, distilling what went
before and went behind and what went wrong....and we all sat
unafraid and unabashed in our proximity and were all right amazingly...heroes
all brave and nascent in our new ages of birth and birthing....such
was the dream had on the top of the cliff where time stands
still breathing like a tambourine just shaken out into the dust
of the road passed by on carts antique and not useful, music
pressed into the leaves of sea wind that streaked his hair with
samarkand and alma ata , memories kept secret by the hermit
that showed us where to look for the other things also kept
hidden, things that should also have been kept hidden, but were
made known to all listeners at the other end of the world at
the other end of time, where the bass rolls off the easterly
like in a market like in a place where trade flows easily and
shamelessly, nice to know that it existed in a dream, taken
to the limit burning like the sun, back to the wall, at the
top of a cliff, turned around and almost inside out like a flower
opened by a hungry child, gorgeous in its privacy, shy in its
calling, outrageous in its melody......played again and again
on different instruments like a canon trembling close to the
heart, one with the soul, nearer than the mouthpiece like a
moth to a flame broken wings singed by happiness and the two
of them just flew off bold and unafraid and looking for that
ending at the other end of the world at the other end of the
story...
