Time Was Away
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Time was away and somewhere else,
there were two glasses and two chairs,
and two people with one pulse,
(somebody stopped the moving stairs),
time was away and somewhere else.

And they were neither up nor down,
the stream's music did not stop,
flowing through heather limpid brown,
although they sat in a coffee shop,
to a cause of world renown,
and they were neither up nor down,

the bell was silent in the air,
holding its inverted poise,
between the clang and clang a flower,
a brazen calyx of no noise;
the bell was silent in the air.

The camels crossed the miles of sand,
that stretched around the cups and plates,

the desert was their own, they planned
to portion out the stars and dates:
the camels crossed miles of sand

Time was away and somewhere else.
The waiter did not come, the clock
forgot them and the radio waltz,
came out like water from a rock:
Time was away and somewhere else.

Her fingers flicked away the ash,
that bloomed again in tropic trees,
not caring if the markets crash,
when they had forests such as these.
Her fingers flicked away the ash.

God or whatever means the Good,
be praised that time can stop like this
that what the heart has understood,
can verify in the body's peace
God or whatever means the Good.

Time was away and she was here,
and life no longer what it was,
the bell was silent in the air,
and all the room a glow because
time was away and she was here.




 


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