I am here again tonight
my love, with a heart that feels so sad…
I stand right where we
used to stand, remembering times we had.
Were you here before?,
did you stand just so, do I share the air you breathed?
Will I see your footsteps
in the grass, have you left something here for me?
How many times, have I traveled
here, and thought of how it’d be…
To arrive just so, before
you’d go, and for a moment, you I’d see.
I search this place, for
clues you’d leave, a wrapper from your favorite sweets.
But finding none, I close
my eyes, and hear you as you speak.
Do you love me? "Yes, maybe
a little…" and then you’d smile so sweet…
I’d stand right there,
and watch your eyes, feel the ground beneath my feet.
I touch your face, and
you touch mine, for a heartbeat it feels real…
But then I stop and realize,
they are but moments that I steal.
I hear the sound of wheels
on dirt, my heart it skips a beat…
If it is you, when you
come into view, will I be able to speak?
Some heartbeats later it
appears, but it’s not your car I see…
It’s just some other lover’s
come, to make their own memories.
Ron Walker February 1999