Old Friends Gone

I know that time
When the cold winds come
In the icy breath
Of frozen winter
Where hearts grow cold
And minds grow numb
As the hand of death
Touches your shoulder
What would I give
For the summer sun
Forever young
Forever growing
And yet i grieve
For those i mourn
Old friends gone
Never returning

They say God speaks
But the voice I hear
Defies any kind
Of explanation
And the road I walk
leads me nowhere
And the truth i find
Is no consolation
What would I give
For the summer sun
Forever young
Forever growing
And yet i grieve
For those i mourn
Old friends gone
Never returning

  Was there a time before we met
  A place in me that I forget
  When everything was yet to come
  When what must end had not begun

I know that time
When days are warm
And children laugh
Under my window
And fortune smiles
And dreams live on
Where pain and death
Have left no shadow
What would I give
For that summer sun
Forever young
Forever growing
And yet i grieve
For those i mourn
Old friends gone
Never returning


Tony Lloyd, 2011

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