requiem for a friend long dead

SONG FOR ETERNITY

Sometimes when I watch you march
with your legions across the sky
I wonder why you chose to fly
away leaving me earthbound
to mourn your passing every time
clouds fill my mind or fill the sky

Sometimes I watch as you and yours play
Tumbling down over cliffs
Soaring back into the firmament
To vanish with your laughter
an echo in the fabric of my life
and I long to hear your voice today
but tell myself that was never meant

Sometimes when I watch you march
with your legions across the sky
I wonder why you chose to fly
away leaving me earthbound
to mourn your passing every time
clouds fill my mind or fill the sky


Sometimes when I fly
I look down on you and the ancient souls
of Africa towering above the ground
filling up the sky
I feel even more apart from you
When I look down on clouds that
contain you below me
than when you are above me
But I don’t know why




Sometimes when I watch you march
with your legions across the sky
I wonder why you chose to fly
away leaving me earthbound
to mourn your passing every time
clouds fill my mind or fill the sky


Sometimes when I think of how
we loved and laughed and the games
we played when first we met
I know why when you joined
the legions marching across the sky
you took my childhood with you
Leaving me eternally alone and yet
part of me is always at ease
when I see clouds fill the sky