So that I might know you.

Once a puddle of clay

Now a person passing through you

Like the scent of a stranger

In a railway tunnel

Long ago, when you were my age

And I arrived from a nowhere place 

And life was held up, once again

By a mysterious tide you couldn't see

When I was cloud and Mum sang to me

Curled up within her, warm and still 

Her voice, a music that moved love through me

Your hand on her, so that I might know you

You chopping the wood

You painting the cot

You building a kingdom in a daydream  

You taking Mum in, down the dusty road

With the trees on each side

Like the cage to your heart

And the night I nearly died

The bloodied sheets

But I swam through

To find you there

Your sleepless face in a light filled room

Me carrying the traces of another world

Against your chest, your breath in mine

Speaking to me in silence

Now cities between us

Childhood receded

Adulthood a fog 

Built from swept up dream dust

You looking older each time I come home

But life still sings within you

And what hides in you still hides in me

And what you see, I see too

Both of us now

Sit in separate rooms

Filling the distance through phone calls

And I cling to your voice

Because I still wear your words

Like a cloud, so that I might know you.