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.
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