Unwriting the Dream

Lyrics

Clinging, collapsing, unformed in the dark, Sky pressed to soil without fissure or spark Breathing together, not living, not dying Just holding, just folding, just endlessly tying An coiling downward, Ki pulling tight, Dreaming a silence too solid for light Thought was still vapor, time hadn't started The world was a heartbeat, unbroken, unparted But longing was stirring, rising through stone, A hunger for movement, for being alone Enlil was waking, expanding, dividing Craving the empty, the lifting, the widening Reaching with purpose, he shattered the seam, Tearing the oneness, unwriting the dream He flung the sky upward, the heavens retreating, He sent Ki downward, trembling, unseating And in their dividing, the breath first arrived Whispering shapes where none had survived Stars began forming, cascading, igniting, Rivers unraveling, oceans reciting An floated higher, becoming the span, Ki found her body in valley and sand And Enlil stood breathing, the air in his chest Still tasting of closeness, of pain, of unrest From parting came place, from silence came name, From pulling came paths we never could tame We walk through the tension they left in their wake A lineage of longing, of splitting, of ache