Like the River - James Vincent McMorrow

Floating downstream like swans in the sun

Surrounded by friends and lovers

We looked on smiling

At the evening so bright

River behind and the fading delight

I knew her back from when she was young

Days blow in faster than rounds from a gun

Scattered like shells and lost to the sea

Like the river, the days flow

Rapidly

I have all these memories

I don’t know what they are for

I have them and I cannot help it

Some overflow and spill out like waves

And some I will harbour for all of my days

I like burn like oil

You grew like a flower

Rising towards your magical hour

For I was not yours and you were not mine

But true love it finds us when it is time

You drove back down town

To highways that I remember

Happy for you and happy for me

The old times and the new

I lay down in

In love with the night

My new love beside me

A radiant light

Fading away along with my thoughts

And like a train, I trail on

Mystically