There is a time I remember well,
When love sweetly smiled with me
But it seemed so new I could not tell
I did not comprehend, I did not see.
But now I remember ever so sadly
How she said goodbye and walked away
With a dream drowning in her eyes
A shooting star falls from the sky
From joyous company to nothingness,
And memories and dreams that never die
Fly everywhere like bees and butterflies.
For the longest instant in time
For a moment that strains eternal
There is truth, beauty and rhyme
Then darkness and distressing complexity
Like a fading whisper, a fleeting sigh
It blossoms and is forever gone -
There is no return, no second try
To what was missed and left undone.
The memories and dreams will die
And this life will dry to the bone:
Oh for that love that passed me by
For that fragrance the wind has blown.
