You'll know it when you see it
You'll feel the way you should when you wait for rain
And see a stretch of grass swollen with wind
Stranger pause here
You'll feel the way you do
When you see a smile break
In pieces you can hold underneath her chin
Stranger pause here
If you arrive across the river
Beneath the incandescent gloom in the frozen dark
Are you bewildered or charmed?
Stranger pause here
You'll know it when you see it
Your vision will be full: the prize of altitude
Without the thread of fear congesting in the loom
Stranger pause here beyond the river
Beneath the incandescent gloom in the frozen dark
A favor in kind for the nameless heart
I'm thinking I'd treasure whomever I spent a lifetime loving
I'm sure we've met before
If not here, somewhere else
On the road greeting dusk on the third of the year
There was a house in the distance with the lights on
One of us, then, was you