Meteors

Words and Music © 2006 by Howard Ashby Kranz

 

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1. One young and lucid night, we watched the falling stars

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streak through the crystal sky, glowing like all our joyous will.

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Backs pressed against the earth, facing the depths of sky,

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we paused to speak our souls; we told the dreams that we’d fulfill. 

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We held our breath as we watched the falling stars;

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our thoughts soared in highest realms with the meteors. 

 

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2. Somehow the years spun by; late on another eve,

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passing through our ragged backyard, once more we saw those Perseids flare.

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We had not saved the world; we were not blazing trails

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struggling in makeshift jobs, then it was hard to even care.

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You said “It’s a strange thing to think of the falling stars,

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how they seem like blazing suns; they’re just meteors.

 

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Bridge: Fullness eludes us again and again; time’s been as true but as frail as a friend

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And we’ve got so encumbered with tasks and expense

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that mock our brave moments of innocence, meteors.

 

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3. Last night we walked again, watching the falling stars

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streak toward a still sad world, dying like all those glorious dreams.

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I reached to grasp your hand; I searched to find your eyes:

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your eyes sparked and shot like stars, waking the long night’s gathered gleams.

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In the flicker of darkness after the falling stars;

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we blessed the ceaseless sparks of the meteors,

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the timeless persistence of the meteors.