Why an emptiness within
with the summer wind
blowing away the dust

Why the mute tears
we weren't friends for years
but came together awhile

The earth doesn't pause to grieve
but in the heart of hearts
when a good friend leaves
the void for lifetime hurts.

WHEN I OPEN MY EYES
I LOOK BACK IN TIME
I KNOW I TRIED
FOR SO LONG I CRIED
WISHING YOU WERE MISSING ME
BE STILL, BE STILL

MY DAYS ARE FILLED WITH HOPE
SOMEHOW I HAVE TO COPE
WHEN I OPENED MY EYES
THEN THE FUTURE IS HERE
I KNOW I TRIED
FOR SO LONG I CRIED
WISHING YOU WERE MISSING ME
BE STILL, BE STILL
MY DAYS ARE FILLED WITH HOPE

EVERYWHERE I TURN
YOUR ON MY MIND
I KNOW I HAVE TO COPE
MY DAYS ARE FILLED WITH HOPE
BE STILL, BE STILL
MY DAYS ARE FILLED WITH HOPE
BE STILL

Summer breathes through
slow and sure
full of promises
for star children
riding the Milky Way.

you mustn't be so impatient my child
our time will come
you know the numbers are limited
we will be leaving soon
I promise you
and the adventure that awaits us
will be beyond our imagination
we will be kings
and they will love us
because we are what they strive to be
but it cannot be rushed
we must move slowly
they will not even realize that we have saved them
and in a thousand years
it will be all ours
as their species fades to relics
now come inside after the earth sets
and just remember
we shall be there
before the next eclipse

He lies flat on the rooftop
looking at the stars.

Useless worlds birthing and dying
he muses
the colossal magnificence of waste

if atrophy is the verdict
why create a complex web of universe
just because someone from an island
would stare at them
in awe of the beauty
seeking a key to the riddle
himself a grain of dust
lost in reading the firmament
and not grasping
of what significance
he is
within his shrinking space and time
in an expanding universe.