I got close enough to the river that I couldn't hear the trucks

But not close enough to stop the roaring of my mind:

"These rocks don't care if I live or die"

"Everyone I know will finally turn away"

"I will confuse and disinterest all posterity"

Lost wisdom is a quiet echo

Lost wisdom by the edge of the stream at dusk

Is a quiet echo on loud wind

With one hand in the water running cold and clear

Fog obliterates the morning and I don't know where I am

The heart is pounding and you are always on my mind

Lost wisdom is a quiet echo

Lost wisdom: a boulder under the house

I used to know you

Now I don't

The screaming wind said my name I think, significant and dark

My lost face in the mirror at the gas station

Who are you above my face that I wake up with alone?

Lost wisdom: approaching shape in the low light

You thought you knew me

You thought our house was home

I thought I knew myself

I thought my heart was calm

Thunder, lightning, tidal wave

The wind blew down the door

Lost wisdom: the river goes through the room

I saw your picture out of nowhere

And forgot what I was doing

Everything vanished in your eclipse,

[broad and lost]

A constellation of moments comes to life in the void

Lost wisdom: face down under the moss

Enraptured by the beautiful face in the billowing flames

I open the front and back door and let the wind blow through

And I stood in the house and tried to hold the destroying breeze

Lost wisdom: waking up in a pile of ash

Secret knowledge comes to me in the dusk

You showed me the river and I saw me