path of love

summer nights and long warm days
stolen as the old moon falls
and the mirror sells another face
another place to hide it all

and i'm lost behind
the words i'll never find
and i'm left behind
as the seasons roll on by
-chris cornell-

don't know what to say
to let you know how i feel
don't know what to do
to show you my gratitude

you've touched my life
all of you
in ways big and small,
both significant and seemingly
inconsequential

but nothing is without consequence
no small action without an outcome
the words won't draft
on the paper in my head

so it's on the great highway
of information
to spread the love
to share the feelings
because i've got nothing to say

your children light the way
their untouched glee, their unvarnished hopes
life's got nothing on hope
when you're four years old

i'm lost behind
the words i'll never find

i'm left behind
as the seasons roll on by

i'm afraid to go
you know that
even when i don't say it

you're afraid to let me go
i know that
even when you do say it

i love you all
like you all love me
this is the beginning
not the end

i say that more for me
than you
because your times together
will go on
your fellowship will strengthen

i will drop in when i can
but for some reasons
i've got to go
i've got to see what can happen
when you hand over the reigns

i've got to ride shotgun on this one
trusting the driver knows where he's going
because i sure don't know where this road leads right now

but i know that somewhere down the path
it circles back to you, all of you
this giant round-a-bout will
bring me back to those i love

"we all walk the long road
cannot stay
all the friends and family
cannot stay
i have wished for so long
how i wish for you today"
-ev-