May 2014
I used to dream of spring
and a lifetime of long June days
I watched you walk away into the warm, whistling wind
Singing with your voice, "So long".
I should have stopped you in your tracks,
by the tracks long lost.
I should have realized and spoken these words...
"Take all my tomorrows and give me one more hour tonight."
I've been walking for so long,
but I've never gotten too far.
Impeded by spring's warm, whistling wind
which caught and carried our life away.
As I gaze into your face -- brilliant, blue, and fair.
Words catch and choke as I ask myself again.
How many more steps till I can stop drawing this spring air?
and a lifetime of long June days
I watched you walk away into the warm, whistling wind
Singing with your voice, "So long".
I should have stopped you in your tracks,
by the tracks long lost.
I should have realized and spoken these words...
"Take all my tomorrows and give me one more hour tonight."
I've been walking for so long,
but I've never gotten too far.
Impeded by spring's warm, whistling wind
which caught and carried our life away.
As I gaze into your face -- brilliant, blue, and fair.
Words catch and choke as I ask myself again.
How many more steps till I can stop drawing this spring air?
Written from the perspective of a survivor of the 1953 Flint tornado. On the 50th anniversary of the storm, he recounted the story of the hours leading up to the storm when he dropped his fiance off at work, where she perished in the storm.
