Hours By The Window

Day and night

By the window

Of my mind

There you are

In the courtyard

One last time

The singing of a famous song I've never heard before

A man without a shadow slowly walking past my door

My mind projects a face soon to be free of misery

The chiming of some distant bell that echoes in my heart

A dance upon the flagstones to the music of the stars

A mother's name that lingers on a soothing summer's breeze

All alone I said no prayers today

I couldn't kneel to please the god that failed you

Now you're gone I'll sit and spend each day

Hours by the window

Morning comes

To my rescue

Once again

Whispers in the corridor and footsteps in the hall

My only point of reference now the sunlight on the wall

It draws me to the window where my dreams are memories

A step beyond the line where sunken eyes avert their gaze

An endless tract of time reveals a thousand silent ways

All searching for an answer to life's deepest mysteries

On the ocean of pure time I sail away

I go and these four walls will not contain me

Maybe there I'll see your face again

Hours by the window

All alone I said no prayers today

I couldn't kneel to please the god that failed you

What I'd give to see your face again

Hours by the window