Sleepwalkers Timeless Bridge

A boat of rose dewdrops stands, waiting for you;
The air it is bathed with the scent of the sea ~
The clock is so still now ~ no hours pass through
As the sweetness of light echoes softly to you.

The journey, so longed for, it beckons you on,
Your shadow, at noon~time falls, high on the sand;
You pause for a moment, as if to glance back ~
But I have you now, as I reach for your hand.

You smile as I greet you, remembering how,
In the days of our youth, we were eager and gay;
I waited so long, and at last have you near ,
As I loosen the rope and the boat floats away.

There are tears in your eyes as the shore slips from view ~
You are thinking, I know, of the ones left behind;
Yet this journey will take you a circular route
The journey begun is the journey behind.

In the halls decked with years, your memories dance ~
To a melody, wrote by the beat of your heart;
You watch, as they flicker and flutter away,
As all things, they were past in the breadth of a day.

The child, then the boy, then the man - all are here;
The hourglass changed but the soul stayed the same ~
Reflecting, transcending, through darkness and light,
The Voyager within, at the gate of the night.