Unawares

It all happened so fast

I didn't have a chance to think

Without a backward glance

without a moment's time to blink

I'm caught breathless, unawares,

In all your silent beauty

this beauty just a whisper

and they don't know how much you meant to me.

Catch my breath again

step back to reality's haze,

when the sky and I cried for you

I lost my breath again in the maze

The maze of hopeless wonder

where a thousand memories

that never even happened

haunt me with a frozen breeze.

Still I cried for you,

In a violent lost hope's whisper

And still I am a bit afraid

That I've become a hopeless drifter.

In many years they may forget,

And without you now I see,

as I start to lose my own control,

Just how fragile this world can seem to be.

I'll cross the gull-crying sea

For a whole new different world

With all you've ever taught me,

Secrets ever here for me to hold,

Building a hundred dream bridges,

Always breaking down stubborn soul walls

And inside this happy heart

Live all my lonely echo calls.