The moment      you and I in time
we could have been  so close    but you stood away
I remember     the sky was grey that day
and I did hear      the church bell's solemn chime

strangers?         hardly so     that our hearts did silently know
a vow we made    in youth's sunshine--days    so  long ago
our past         wrapped in silence     captured now only in shadow
a messages   our eyes exchanged     the language of lost-love's sorrow.