Do You Ever Live?

Are you adrift? Are you Hands at 10 and 2? Are you the spinning wheel As it starts to reel? Or the tallship on a summer lawn? The tiller yaws, the ripple moving blade to blade Makes a figure eight Only, only time, only time will tell if you're the sea itself Or an echoing shell Do you ever live? Are you someone else? Are you someone else or is someone else you? Oh, what can you do If you're the only passenger? You've come from where you're coming to, but there may be An unraveling seam Wake up, low-angle sun, ivy runners have begun To climb the starboard walls And they start to call: Do you ever live? Only, only love Only love will show us where we have to go Set off into the vale Make your way into the trail of intersecting shoots One of which is you Do you ever live? --- Do You Ever Live? - Darlingside