COME AND GONE

Aerial view of a life

Slip through the borders of time

Somehow you get the feeling

These memories outlived their prime

Well, that shoe fits and you’ll wear it

On the one foot you keep in the past

Still only half-expecting that

The latest will be the last

Nothing quite disappears

Jump decades and leap years

It’s the magic you’ve been waiting on

But this idea, its day has come and gone

Aerial view of a life

Distance a kinetic flow

Why the rush to reminisce

With people that you barely know?

Reach out again, but to what end?

Really, can there be much left to say?

Pinwheeling cigarette sparks

That burn out along the highway

Goodbye to a good dream

As close as it can seem

To conclusions that were never drawn

‘Cause this idea, its day has come and gone

Continents drift, the universe expands

Things move apart - it’s according to plan

We lose track of the ties, far off and scattershot

Throw ourselves to the wind and find out who we’re not