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Rising with the sun

Racing down that steep hill

Faster still

Out there as the night falls

Sneaking home to bed

Hiding in the long grass

Stealing sweets and

Sweetheart kisses

Late back home for tea-time

With keepsakes and dreams

Might-have-beens

One day we rode out

Side by side

For the last time

Nobody there

Knew we'd not

Ride together again

Some of us remained

We fashioned all our hopes into music

Then, running out of time

We moved along

Drifting far from sight

But held in place like circling satellites

Or bookmarks on a page

You can find once again

Stories and old friends

Turned more pages

Moved further along

Got our skates on

Found a new home

For our words

For our songs

For our hopes

Then late in the night

Came a storm

And the brightest star fell

And everything is gone now

Time is a river

The shore out of reach

Heading downstream

Where the water is too deep

Life is an ocean

I am lost out at sea

Looking for safe harbour

A light that's calling me

Out of the darkness

Out of the night

I knew you'd shine

Be there at my side

Riding to the rescue once again

My dear old friends