I scrub my blackened feet
Scrape off the caked on grime of the street
I wash my hands and face

Of the Worldly soot that accumulate
In the day-in day-out farcical strife
In the humdrum of everyday life

And I enter my home clean
Step up to the hearth I've deemed my own


I sit down on the bidet
And shower my flower of the decay
That sets in when she lets in a guest

For recreation no creation, her slight protest
And I enter my bed clean
Lay down my head and dream of another world


The desert springs to life
The golden chaparral gives up her rights

To poppy fields for miles
And purple lupin lavender behind
Another world


Waking with the sun
The poppy petals peel back to open

And turn the hills orange
To start another cycle of seasons
Another world


We dance as whooping cranes
Who once again have found their lifetime mates

We bound across the plains
Roll down slopes, fill our white coats with stains
Of another world


We come to rest as one
At the bottom of the hill, start to make love

We lean against the earth
Rocking back and forth and back and forth, back and forth
Another world


Under a wild sky setting sun
We ride the waves towards something still to come

Another world