On this forever journey
Many leaves have fallen
Many seasons have passed
Destines are cast
As if by some other power
With a missing that’s hour by hour
Day by day
And on and on
The road led to Hill tops
A view of a hearts mountain top
Then to the valleys
Of a longing unsurpassed
Then we met
Everything transformed and beset
And much has come to pass
Of feelings not known
As if returning home
From what I had become
This isn’t your typical missing
Or a familiar longing
It approaches the fall season
Like a storm and all these reasons
Blowing with the leaves
This way and that way
Tears run past
Of the sadness of what was cast
I never thought it would be again
Then your heart began to sing
There is a peace in your love
This is the beauty of your soul
The seed, now, begins to grow
From something that was extinct
Rhythms of a heart beat
Softness, like a birds song
A nightingale cry’s out
Joy and sorrow weep
Together
by Gary Hodges
Artists Credit: Otto Philipp Runge -The-Lesson-Of-The-Nightingale
