A Walk To Remember

In the sparkling river, on a jagged rock

You held my timid hands and soothed my tired heart

Then lead me down the paths of my past

Unknowingly from the start

 

Gently guiding step by step

Quiet and without words

I recalled so many different times

The joyful and disturbed

 

The fall leaves crunched beneath our feet

I was ten all over again

My daddy walking in front of me

The beginning of the end

 

Time seemed to stand still

For me to reminisce

And at the perfect moments

You blessed it with a kiss

 

It was okay for me to remember

Okay for me to mourn

All the things that I’d been taught

Since the day that I was born

 

You brought me back to basics

Back to the innocent days

Days I had forgotten

The me that fell away

 

The ground beneath my feet

Strong man to keep me safe

Until the sting of ugly truth

Slapped me in the face

 

Pain I can’t reopen

Lie in the recesses of my mind

And we walked softly across the bridge of it

It being buried all the time

PB 10-14-08