Once We Were Dreamers
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Once we were dreamers able to fly
eternal summer beneath endless sky
and nothing we cared for tomorrow -
once, we were dreamers.
With hearts still unbroken, and songs yet to sing
innocents soaring on gossamer wings,
lords of the fields and the back yards -
once, we were dreamers.
Fair summer rising - up with the sun
kick off the blankets, and barefoot we'd run
marking a trail in the grass of the dew covered morning.
Until one day we looked and September had gone,
a chill in the air, and a frost on the lawn -
somehow the summer slipped by with hardly a warning.
Words in a yearbook - awkward clichés
scrawled in the margins of simpler days -
promises made by a child
once, we were dreamers
left in the dust with the plans that we made
counting off cadence in pointless parade
feeding the fires of the furnace -
but once we were dreamers.
Tearing the time from the calendar's face,
pushed to the limits and losing the race,
avoiding the gaze of the eyes looking back from the mirror.
come back to the place where the child still plays,
awake to the dreams of those innocent days.
Fair summer rising again - every day it grows nearer...!
copyright © 2004 Lance Gallup
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