Here we are, again

Looking across the table
through mirrors, between mirrors
One behind the other behind

In this life there are three dogs
In this life there is a tree swaying
In this life there is traffic pounding
In this life there is water falling
In this life I am drowning

I am swimming

I can see the back of your head
(I forgot to brush my hair)

In this life I am five years old
And she is 102
And we are 24, or are we
In this life I am as old as time
As the glaciers that shared the hills
That have always been here

In this life I am as still as the horizon
As restless as the car window
As alone as the man in the moon