sing this song with me
Mar 8th, 2008 by Ree Joy
i was thinking about you the other day
and as suddenly i caught myself smiling
at the thought of your name,
and maybe that’s how we build a faith,
or a trust, or a barnyard full of friends;
by simply believing the best
of those we touch along the day,
or dream along in moonlit nights…
and there the thought fell dead,
leaving future speculation to trace
hindsight, as it ambled along and back
to that particular taste of yesterday,
when the thought of you,
and that unexpected smile,
also brought a different tang to memory;
a different walk along another bay.
and all of this now, and suddenly,
as i’m sitting still, and scrabbling tiles
and letters and words to say,
they all came rushing back;
those songs i never sang, those words
i never let say, those daydreams
that never saw the light of day,
those loves my heart, my tongue,
had never set free.
and i don’t know, how different
some lives would be,
and mine, and yours, and theirs,
if i’d be now and still be me,
and know them then as they smile at me,
to tell you then what i want to now…
it’s all foregone, foreclosed; that yesterday.
it’s just us now; my world, and yours,
and what we have, and all we never had,
and history, and everything we still
can’t say…
but i was thinking about you the other day,
and oh, i smiled, as i do, right now,
knowing i have you still, like i never had;
a friend to keep, a soul in need, for company.
and even if you were, you are,
a thousands miles away, and more,
you’re still as near, as dear,
as my own thoughts, and yours, can fly you
close, and closer still.
there’s a different way I’m finding this beautiful that moves me not to say much… as I try to catch my breath and hush my racing heart
if that makes sense at all…