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I am the last man on earth and I cannot remember my name, by Eric Funk

from Sonic Divide by Payton MacDonald Various Projects

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Composed by Eric Funk, first performed at a Divide crossing in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Montana.

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Poetry by John Haek

in the shadow before waking,
the old dream:

I am alone
on the summit of a mountain,
looking down on a sea of clouds,
nothing but the pale morning satin of snow
and the clouds shifting silently
as the earth, with a vibration so slow it can't be heard,
paces its invisible ellipse:

I am the last man on earth
and I cannot remember my name.

I slept on the floor then,
high up in a city apartment.
I was learning the absence of passion.
Though the world is made of it,
it was nowhere to be seen.
Caught in the contradiction,
I could not find an open path.
I learned slowly and suffered.

Since then I have doubted,
I have hidden
and I have tried to measure up to existence.

I discovered it was possible
to accept the world and perhaps myself,
but never, never to extinguish the fire
burning in the darkness of my being.

It has been years since that dream haunted my waking,
but I am still there, alone on that mountain,
looking down on a sea of clouds.

I am the last man on earth
and I cannot remember my name.

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from Sonic Divide, released August 31, 2019
sonicdivide.com
See the Sonic Divide film on Vimeo: vimeo.com/214775555

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