The Dream

I saw a dream
Long lost to me
In search of
Another's waking

It found a shoreline
Far away
As the day -
As my heart
Was breaking

And I sighed and I wept
For what could not be -
And for all that could
Have been

For every hope
And every prayer
Long drowned
Beneath the sea

I fell to sleep
Alone that night
To the sound
Of a distant call

The faintest whisper
Of good-bye -
And the dream
Was mine, no more

Lang leav