Song From Long Ago

Annie
and Piglet
1974
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A song for the years
I spent sitting, scared,
Collecting people

As life went by
Mirrored in the windows
of other eyes.

Through borrowed sadness
and stolen sunshine,
While the Queen of Spades
drew lines in the sand
with her sceptre
I built busy card towers
in the wind.

A falling of leaves,
a breaking apart,
a lost-time later,
I got up
and walked away with you;

Watched the cards scatter
like frightened mice
dissolve into dawn’s white veils.

For every good-bye leaves a hollow,
Every sunbeam’s a shadow of love –
All the towers wash away with the tide.