A RIVER RUNNING

A River Running

(For Marvyn)

There you were – so in love

Vibrant with the joy of promises

From someone you had fallen for but didn’t really know

But you’d untied your lines and you were going with that flow

That river running

So there you went, just like that

One day shining on me like the sun

The next I’m cast into blue midnight when you disappear

Yet in my deepest dreams of you I swear I always hear

A river running

And here I am – not even a goodbye

But if you’d had the time you would have said

That your love for me was something time could not outrun

And that this coming true of dreams had only just begun

And that your heart had triumphed -- after all was said and done

And had become

A river running

Running towards some miracle impatient to begin

Running towards some victory your heart had yet to win

Running towards some splendid future only you could see

Running towards some far horizon’s last, best eternity

A river running