It Takes Time

 
No equation
to explain the division of the senses
No sound to reflect
the radiance of time
In the beginningest dream
Halls of disorder
Where we are swept to encircle dawn
Strapped in a low car
Racing thru silence
Trumpeting bliss
You could kiss the world
goodbye

Standing outside the courthouse
in the rain
Seemed like a lost soul
from the chapel of dreams
With a handful of images
Faces of children
Phases of the moon
One little thing you get wrong
changes the dimensions
Streets, swept memory
Diffused and lost
Like a prayer in the sun

Sometimes you can't tell
whether you're waking up
or going to sleep
Spiralling
Unnumbered streets
All the games cannot be yours
All the sights, the treasures of the eye
Does the divided soul remain the same?
No equation to explain
Destiny's hand
Moved, by love
Drawn by the whispering shadows
Into the mathematic
of our desire

    Patti & Fred "Sonic" Smith (1949-1994),
    (from the soundtrack of Until the End of the World)

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(I was) Looking for You

In the medieval night
'Twas love's design
And the sky was open
like a Valentine
All the lacy lights
Where wishes fall
And like Shakespeare's child
I wished on them all

Ahh to be your destiny
was all that I pursued
I could see the sights
from the lofty heights
But my heart obscured the view

I was looking for you
Looking for you
What could I do?
I was looking for you

Along the black river
The ambassador jewels
And you were reflected
in all that I saw
In the towers of gold
In the wheel and wing
Gripping my senses
like an ancient claim

Many is the time I knelt in the light
appealing to all that I knew
Guide my eyes
and steps
that I may find love true

I was looking for you
Looking for you
What could I do?
I was looking for you

Come on darlin'
All that hearts desire
was written before us
In the medieval fire
It was love's design
In the glittering stars
Like Shakespeare's child
To be where you are

From the Portobello Road
To the Port of Marseilles
Where the dervish turns
Where the wild goats play

I was looking for you
Looking for you
What could I do?
I was looking for you

    Patti Smith (from the album, Dream of Life)

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wild leaves
 

wild leaves are falling
falling to the ground
every leaf a moment
a light upon the crown
that we'll all be wearing
in a time unbound
and wild leaves are falling
falling to the ground

every word that's spoken
every word decreed
every spell that's broken
every golden deed
all the parts we're playing
binding as the reed
and wild leaves are falling
wild wild leaves

as the campfire's burning
as the fire ignites
all the moments turning
in the stormy bright
well enough the churning
when enough believe
the coming and the going
wild wild leaves
wild wild leaves
wild wild leaves

Patti Smith (from the People Have the Power E.P.)