The Forgetting Room - Seeming

We were children when I met you

There between the autumn trees

You consumed me and I let you

Burn me in the fallen leaves

A thousand winters each more serious

Separated earth and sky

The blood was angry, blood was furious

But the heart cannot recall just why

The quill won’t recognize the paper

The piano doesn’t know its keys

The stars are old and can’t remember

What it’s like to map the seas

And when I look at you I tremble

But damned if I know who you are

A ghostly haze of sweet November

Lost and senile as the stars

And here in this forgetting room

The rising sun’s a setting moon

And all the world fits in our hands

And this forgetting room

Goes to sleep;

we’re entombed

By no high command

There’s nothing more to understand

But in all the happenstance of nature

The cruelty without a name

A random number generator

Is still a function all the same

So even if the sky is broken

Idiotic, blind with age

I will hold you and keep hoping

There’s a script to guide the stage

And it goes on and on

Here in this forgetting room

The rising sun’s a setting moon

And all the world fits in our hands

And this forgetting room

Goes to sleep;

we’re entombed

By no high command

There’s nothing more to understand

And if that’s how it has to happen

If that’s the way it’s gotta be

Then I submit against all reason

A small request for you and me

Make the universe forget us

In some old dusty catacomb

Nameless, numberless, and breathless

Let our closeness be our home

First we’d forget why there was fire

Then forget why there was love

And I forget what’s next cause I

Forget what I was thinking of—right!

We were children when I met you

Carried in the careless breeze

Now if you leave me, I would let you

But what’s the use of memories?

When now is all your eyes can see

When I forget the melody