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The Opening Open my eyes and I close them Open again look out, see in Open my eyes and I close them Touching open spaces Found in grave and in dark and warm embraces Trading open secrets Saying nothing that we don't know One and one make zero In the dark she has no face In the quiet I have no name In surrender there is no ability But inevitability Open your arms and I fall in Open heart surgical angel arrow Open your arms I have fallen Clutching imprints and traces Once engraven now the darkened wave erases Shading in the spaces where fingers and feelers won't go Look how you've forced the day to wear clothes I'm the hollow on your landscape I'm the hand inside your glove If you give yourself an opening Then the tug will absorb the shove I have a wound That never heals Cold hands are those that That never feel Two lips conceal The room of all that's pleasant And the maiden strain Slips past and opens The present Soon now we'll break Open the seals Old hands are those that That turn the wheels Two lips reveal The doorway of the pleasant While the maiden strain Slips past and opens Your presence