january day
A January day, light’s broken gray.
Silence all around.
I’m walking along thinking of a song
Tells what’s been lost and what’s been found.
No reason to stop and I turn my collar up
Against a cold that fits the day.
Suddenly from the air or maybe from nowhere
Comes a feeling that's never gone away.
How can I name what has no name
Yet is there all the same?
How can I hold what’s beyond time
Belongs to none and yet is mine?
It’s hard to describe but makes me feel alive
In a way that goes into my bones.
What would you give to know what it’s like to live
And to never feel alone?
Would you give up April for a January miracle?
Would you give up warm spring showers?
Would you give a June bride; watch her loveliness slide
To another whose arms receive her flowers?
Would you sacrifice it all to feel the timeless call
Of a universe of unseen dimension?
It’s not easy to leave everything you believe
And it’s not an easy question.
Well the months and years have slipped away like fears
And only one thing has stayed.
That came from nowhere and yet everywhere
On a broken gray January day.
And how can I name what has no name
Yet is there all the same?
How can I hold what’s beyond time
Belongs to none and yet is mine?