Hope

Hope is just a song sung when love is left in solitude A single star suspended in a dark and distant attitude The start continues shining on When all the other light is gone And lights a path for midnight walking through I lie awake along at night Long since the faded firelight And all desire, like the glow, is gone But high above an arching tree The stars are shining steadily And so my thoughts of you continue on, continue on Hope is just a song sung when love is left in solitude A single star suspended in a dark and distant attitude The start continues shining on When all the other light is gone And lights a path for midnight walking through A loon is swimming on the lake Ripples moving in his wake Tracing the liquid mirror that I see I realize the lights below Are really stars of long ago And so the lake reflects a memory, a memory