I used to watch a star at night Far and high it lived, so bright Burned through the black till the sky was light But that was years ago Where did that little light go? And oh the coloured trees All the fearsome autumn leaves And that one cold day in weather grey I danced circles in the snow But that was years ago Where did the seasons go? Memories … They pour over my soul like a flood Like flashes of a summer’s night, Jasmine, sweet and moonlit white I breathe in reverence along with the scent Here for a moment and then Concluded forever, gone again How is it then that the more I learn The less I feel I know? And the less I remember how to dance Circles in the snow And the more I stand anywhere I can Pining for places to go The diminished returns of days spent yearning For what I’d had in the snow And off to sea on a paper boat sweet I watched my younger years go And gone like the star is the moment But eternal the afterglow And like that...
