Like The River

We floated downstream like swans in the sun
 Surrounded by friends and lovers
 We watched on with smiles beaming so bright
 The river behind them, the fading daylight
 I knew her back from when she was young
 Those days poured out faster than rounds from a gun
 Scattered like shells and lost to the sea
 Like the river the days move rapidly
 I have all these memories, I don't know what for
 I have them and I can't help it
 Some overflow and spill like waves
 some I will harbour
 For all of my days
 I burned liked oil, you grew like a flower
 Rising toward your magical hour
 I was not yours and you were not mine
 Our true love finds us when it is time
 We drove back downtown
 Wasted and spent
 Down highways that I remember
 Happy for her and happy for me
 The old times and the new to uncover
 I laid down my head, in love with the night
 With my new love beside me, her radiant light
 I faded away, along with my thoughts
 Like a dream and I trail off mystically