The Word Before Good-Bye
What is the springtime after all?
Only the other side of fall.
Oh, if I could have
I'd have made you a sunny sky.
Hello's the word before good-bye.
Sometimes it rains, sometimes it shines
yet the things I want are seldom mine.
(The Sound of Music gazebo--Summer 2006)
How much of summer can we hold
before we turn and find we're old?
The things our mirrors tell us are all lies
Hello's the word before good-bye.
Sometimes it's dark, sometimes it's fair
yet when I go home at night
nobody's there.
(Sculpture Garden, Princeton 2009)
Perhaps the next wind that blows in
will bring you back to me again.
Till then remembering just makes me want to cry,
Hello's the word before good-bye.
Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win
yet I can't forget what might have been.
(you may thank me now for not linking up to him singing his poetry....)
(you may thank me now for not linking up to him singing his poetry....)
Sheesh. Thank you. No, seriously, thank you.
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