A woman's body knows the struggle Hands deep in the soil know the same There's a wisdom that warfare lends to the soul And then selflessly draws back again But none of these touch or even come close to The lovely you look on this night More than a likeness to dawn or new birth Just the moment the whole world went quiet A curly-haired boy, my son plays in the sand His mother knows his story by heart I was parking the car but there was no space So I earned a ticket and heard a dog bark It's really not news to say "this country is dead" Or to hear a pure saint curse the light But it wasn't like anything I ever heard sung Just the moment the whole world went quiet There's a grace in the way the tide tumbles down This grace you can't trace, not at all Not even a prayer you can point to or say Since she kisses you after the fall So it happened that I was not hungry or angry Not dreaming abyss or great height Just sitting there idle, loving and laughing The moment the whole world went quiet