So I lost you when you left the other day
The moment that I had you
Was the moment that you slipped away
But after this a second silent death occurs
As your memory inevitably drifts away
And I face the fact that nothing else remains for me to do or say
And all the opportunities to time and circumstance have strayed
And all there was that only was because of you
Has fallen down as well

And I know the years will fly
Until my heart forgets it ever cared
So I mourn for thoughts and feelings fallen
Never spoken never shared
And never to be thought or felt in quite the same way
As they were thought and felt and finally given to that day
And so growing up is dying and forgetting murdering the past
Except that somewhere out of time that part of me forever lasts
And I believe that after time
The parts of me that were and are and might have been
Will meet again
And you’ll be there along with me
And everyone I’ve longed to thank
As all the stifled love you’s
That I never knew quite how to say
Explode from my lungs and fly straight to them all
And finally I become whole

Leaves drift gently over me silent as a memory
They sail the breeze yet still they fall