In the calm, in the stillness of a quiet sunless dawn In the flow, in the motion of the lazy rain-speckled river Our tethered essence shed a restless mess of thought And the silence formed us Seamless clouds Teach our mouths All the breathless sounds And then when all our clothes were soaked we walked down to the the edge To look down at the surface where our modest thin reflections stutter And when we saw them we jumped in Our fear can only see The things that men have told us to be So we shake the sacred things Like sparrows shaking rain from their wings They mold all our bones They sold all our holy water While we prayed for a break from the grey The banks rose and sank all day There is no clearer thing I have seen Than these chests rising and sinking