The Year of Youth

In the orange mist of an evening wish

In blue lights of summer nights

There lies the year of youth

And love untold 

When everything but truth touched our lips

And emotions were the greatest enemies

Spirits lost and found, then bought and sold

To the cheap promise of a reputation of gold.

Those were the days of love unknown

Of passion so deep, for no reason at all

Knowing no purpose, seeing no interest

For to love and be loved was its only call.

Those were the nights of dreams well hidden

Beneath dark eyes full of tears

Gazing into me softly

Through our most innocent years.

On such nights the grounds shone with fireflies

As I fought and kicked and screamed

And damned an unwanted childhood

Telling it my very last goodbyes.

You.

You're a dream within my eyes,

 a solemn song under my skin.

You are the bird inside my mind,

singing tales of hope in the morning sun.

Shed your light through my cries

I’m a child in disguise

I reach for your skin,

I know where to begin

With you in my mind after all this time,

After all these years suspended in air

I came to the earth to become bare

To see what I felt and to feel what I see

To touch you inside

And hold you within.

In your light, through the night

I walk on stars

to reach your heart.