Do you remember when you were an urban boy
In those distant nights of darkened skies
Under the city lights that shined amidst the cobwebs
While a lonesome car passed down the streets
Caressing a mechanical tune within the silence
And the half moon glowed with its eerily calm
Between the hardened white buildings
As the impatient breathing of machines
Declared the unendingness of life
In the dead of dawn?
Those distant days of inner loss
Felt found in ways the present plays cannot.
For while they might resound with emptiness,
Covered as they were in a pale dim scent,
Twas then that life felt plentiful
Despite its frail consent.
Today, then, I relive them –
I caress their long lost wait
And hope that some of it remembers me
And stays within my present
And its spent and withered ways.