A Dream

Open up your secret
 Tell me how I might refract
 For I am one and one life in one time's
 A mirror that I've been dying to crack
 And let the world be more
 Though I know in each act I open up a door
 I wonder still at the labyrinths before
 That now lie unwandered and ignored
 I could swear that I've lived as long as you
 That I can imitate anything you do
 But your hands are hundreds, I've just two
 Spun from the clock's relentless core
 I could move like blown air
 Everywhere, omniscient and wild
 I would be your brother, lover, father, and child
 I'd find a way to be foolish and be wise
 And trace all of the seams in time's disguise
 And at the end of the day, I could blink my eyes
 To reload another self once more
 Now I'm hearing your footsteps in the halls
 While your singing is arching over walls
 Tell me, can it be really you at all
 In skies and on the ocean floor?
 Last night I had a dream that you adored me
 Last night I had a dream that I shone bright
 The more I am at once to everybody
 The more I'll be like you, the more I can rewrite
 Here outside it's raining, It's wailing
 I'm soaked to the blood
 Somehow I know that you did this
 It's your kiss on my head, your dry ground under the flood
 And if I learn to swim
 Then you're still the sea that I'm writhing in
 Defining all that I am and that I've ever been
 And all whom I will never be
 Is there a way I might drink of you, not drown?
 Is there a way I might find the pipeline out
 Or diffuse my body into sound
 Becoming waves, becoming free?
 Last night I had a dream that you adored me
 Last night I had a dream that I shone bright
 The more I am at once to everybody
 The more I'll be like you, the more I can rewrite
 I dreamt I was the air, that I was so strong
 I dreamt I was a promise I could keep
 I dreamt I was a film, I was a novel
 A prayer for the impossible, a dire and desperate leap
 I dreamt about a car of grease and metal
 I dreamt I was the moment of its crash
 I dreamt I was a fire, a shrieking kettle
 A cradle and a coffin and a wolf among the sheep
 I dreamt I was a priest without forgiveness
 I dreamt I was a thief who see God
 I turned away my eyes to keep them human
 And waking up I find that they've been stolen in my sleep
 I dreamt that I had never loved another
 I dreamt her heart was safe behind her ribs
 That I could stop this war, that I could save her
 That I was just a dream returning to the deep