.

A crack of light on a cabin floor

A billion specks begin to soar

They spin like worlds from a cedar chest

That's held the sun and laid to rest

The fingerprints of yesterday

That time has slowly wiped away

.

They settle on the tractor's spine

A rusty king of fading lines

That cut the fields of '55

Where my grandfather felt most alive

Now it sleeps beneath a silent cloak

A million memories gone like smoke

Oh, Dust

you are a patient one

You hold the memory of the sun

You blanket everything that's ever been

A quiet

settling

ancient skin

You don't forget

you simply sleep

Secrets that the earth will keep

.

You float down canyon walls of red

On bones of dinosaurs long dead

You are the sand on the ocean shelf

The quiet architect of itself

You are the storm on the desert plain

The fall of empires

sun and rain

.

You coat the moon in silent grey

And on the Milky Way you lay

A reminder that both king and clock

Will quiet to the same fine rock

And join the dance on a sunbeam's thread

The living and the long-since dead

Oh, Dust

you are a patient one

You hold the memory of the sun

You blanket everything that's ever been

A quiet

settling

ancient skin

You don't forget

you simply sleep

Secrets that the earth will keep

.

So let me be a humble part

Of your slow and gentle art

When I am still and my time is through

Let me spin and dance with you

On a sunbeam

through the glass

A part of all that came to pass

Just dust

A silent fall

A patient

timeless

covering all

.