of Quiet Dreams @ a Lake

We were standing on the shoreline
waiting for a moment to arrive
the first light or at least
another quiet dream
of any other kind

You spoke like there was something
you just barely understood
that you were wearing
like lightning just beneath your skin

and I remember you saying
it was a quiet dream to carry

still, it gave us
a real reason to listen

From another perspective perhaps we were mad
but seen with our own eyes we were just hoping
to skate away on the thin ice of a new day
knowing it could break not reason enough
for us to be afraid 

Yes, madly perhaps
but at the very least living

I looked at you then, and said ever so softly
"Let your night wait
just a little while"
seeing a thousand midnights bloom
in the way you smiled

Like you were the only one crying
for every innocence lost
not for your own, no, that was freely given
but for those who it had it taken
and at what that cost

It looked a little like you were wishing it away
the pain and the sorrow 

but I loved you for it

perhaps even for that most of all

 

All the great sorrows you’d borrowed along the way
were just little gentle white longings
not the pale blue regret
of the hollow one at prayer
that you used to know 

I was lost inside a miracle

when you said you thought
you could let it all go

The story you've told and retold

the one one of gambles lost
and bets gone wrong
of quiet dreams unravelled
by a faith barely holding on
of finding yourself far beyond the point
where the odds have grown too long

where the illusion finally broke

 

To see you smile to yourself like that again
without all that sorrow
weighing you down
.. it’s all I've ever wanted for so long

like seeing the first light of a quiet dream

hit the horizon from below

both of us  lost in the quiet dream we'd made

standing on the shoreline with eyes closed

the wintertime blues 

that used to weigh so heavy on your soul

finally decided 

it was time to follow another road

We stopped running last night
We finally made it
Yes, baby.. we made it

.. we got out.