song for dogen

hey hey dogen zenji i wrote you a poem
bout a dusty old world that is no longer home 

i came down from the long cloud on the mountain
and went calling
a woman i didn't recognize 
came and talked to me through a chained door
she said i'm sorry son 
but no world by that name lives here anymore 

silence is because the voices of the earth are too big
silence means seeing the sounds of the big voices
seeing the sounds of the big voices 
is the foot in the sun on the moss
in the stand of pines
listening to the long cloud means seeing it's big voice
singing self's song in silence

on waking a chained door
in sleep a veil
the dusty world grows thinner each lifetime