Residents

I awaken in the night

Fifteen years and far away

With your face before me

And that song playing in my ears.

I see your face but I know that

You don’t look like that anymore

Or listen to that music

And I guess neither do I.

But I awaken in the night

And for just a few moments

All the distance goes away

And all that came between us.

The years of madness come and gone

The years of marriage and divorce

The years of confidence unshared

Ellipsed, eclipsed and gone away.

And for a moment you are

As close to me tonight

As when we lived all of our lives

In those same shared stories.

When we wandered the same halls

And found each other in the night

To share the possibilities

Of our brand new lives.

I awaken in the night

And think that I am there.

But they tore down the old residence

Two years ago.

But if the Finder of Lost Things

And if the Mender of the Torn

Is what we knew Him to be

In those lost days, than

I will awaken in the night

To make my way to a

Bright and common room

And find you gathered there again.