There are moments in life that capture you so
When you think back, you are surprised you never saw the importance before
Like bounding through your childhood, completely carefree or
Glimpsing a strange girl spin drunkenly beneath a bare winter tree or
Staring up from your bedroom window at a hundred spring flowers draped from their branches
And not knowing it's beautiful

When reality hits, you think back again
How you could have grown up so fast, your childhood so brief or
Letting the strange girl spin close enough to love you
Before spinning away
The startling heartache when your father tells you he trimmed the hundred spring flowers hanging above your bedroom window
For you
For your best interest

So you could come to know the feeling of loss.