It's Torn

I see you in windows that open so wide

There's nothing beyond them and no one inside

You kick off your sandals and shake out your hair

The salt on your shoulders like sparks in the air

There's silt on your ankles and sand on your feet

The river too shallow, the ocean too deep

You smile at your suffering, the sweetest reprieve

Why did you leave us, why did you leave

You kick off your sandals and shake out your hair

It's torn where you're dancing, it's torn everywhere

It's torn on the right andit's torn on the left

It's torn in the center which few can accept

It's torn where there's beauty, it's torn where there's death

It's torn where there's mercy but torn somewhat less

It's torn in the highest from kingdom to crown

The messages fly but the network is down

Bruised at the shoulder and cut at the wrist

The sea rushes home to its thimble of mist

The opposites falter, the spirals reverse

And Eve must re-enter the sleep of her birth

And up through the system the worlds are withdrawn

From every dominion the mind stood upon

And now that it's over and now that it's done

The name has no number, not even the one

Come gather the pieces all scattered and lost

The lie in what's holy, the light in what's not

The story's been written the letter's been sealed

You gave me a lily but now it's a field

You kick off your sandals and shake out your hair

It's torn where you're dancing, it's torn everywhere