The earth turned to bring us closer,

The earth turned to bring us closer,

it turned on itself and within us too,

it spun on itself and within us,

and finally brought us together in this dream,

and finally joined us together in this dream

just as it was written in the Symposium.

as written in the Symposium.

Nights passed, snowfalls and solstices;

Nights passed by, snowfalls and solstices;

time passed in minutes and millenniums.

time passed in minutes and millennia.

A cart bound for Nineveh

An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveh

showed up in Nebraska.

arrived in Nebraska.

A rooster crowed somewhere far from this world,

A rooster was singing some distance from the world,

before the birth of one of our thousand fathers.

in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.

The earth kept on turning with all its music,

The earth was spinning with its music

bringing us on board;

carrying us on board;

it did not cease to turn for a moment,

it didn’t stop turning a single moment

as if so much love, so much that is miraculous

as if so much love, so much that’s miraculous

was only an adagio written long ago

was only an adagio written long ago

in the score of the Symposium.

in the Symposium’s score.