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the
secrets and the treasures 
days
have chased us here 
it's
not that we were looking 
things
meaning 
for
the hands passed through
time
it was when
we
each were unwrapped 
under
such a tree 
dearly
beloved 
we
are gathered in dust 
like
the idea surviving 
the
groundless belief
truth
in such hearts 
the
year unwound 
and
years 
because
we lived the wish to be 
everything
lit is already known 
it's
we who are in the dream 
nothing
fits 
each
is of its kind 
take
cliff 
or
pool 
dinner
table 
each
finds a self 
sometimes
a mere succession of us 
brilliant
fizzle 
then
try a little further back 
knock
on the past of this door 
here
where Christmas was 
back
in the box
breeze
to guess south 
fills
our televised sails 
and
find another continent yet
the
house 
for
a running down clock 
you
trip over 
try
to remember 
back
into 
notes
to carry a tune 
start
down 
swim
the tears 
train
is a tunnel's yellowing end
daylight
will find us consumed 
deeper
then the ache till love 
this
is how memory will be
ghosts
of the living still sing 
everything
is already known 
weep
for the past 
that
it is passing
as
we ourselves soon will be 
 
now there's a chorus
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