Maybe the night

Maybe the night gives me focus

To bring back warmth that once was real

The highwire, the dazzling upward spiral

Forward motion now no more than a memory

The lush fabric of longing reduced to threads

Fluttering in the wind

With love on my lips

And a minor second, minor third

I try to re-weave in song

The silk that surrounded,

Surrendered to endless possibility

Yet all is not possible

In the arid climate of reality

And only a shadow of what was now remains

Maybe the night gives me moments

Drops of the past in the present

A small taste, enough just to feel it

Then the waves swell away from the shore

I know it! I knew, and remember

Until it fades away

With love in my prayers

I return to the start

The air splashing over me

Yet if only the ocean...

If the hurricane came without warning

If it blew through life to destroy me

I would stand in the destruction

And forever remember the wind