Kiss away time

This is a song I wrote in 2000 - it's about the departing spirit of a loved one:

There's a bell ringing

There's a door banging

There's an open wound on the flesh of a child

There's flies buzzing

In the quiet garden

While mother says the injury is mild

I wish I were young again

How I wish I could take away his pain

And kiss away the tears

and laugh away the years

And play like a child at a game

There's music coming

From an open window

The cat upon the fence

Is half asleep

The child resting

The sun warming

Summer afternoons can be so deep

I wish I were young again

Could chase through the meadow and the corn

The sun warms the garden grass

As I drift back towards when I was born

There's a church bell ringing

And a hymn singing

I lift above the sound upon a prayer

I watch slowly

The sad faces

As summer's last breath takes away my cares

Now I am young again

I live within the memories they keep

Now I am young again

I slip away as quietly as sleep

There's a bell ringing

A door banging

The child now has a child all of his own

I watch smiling

As he bends to touch him

And kiss away the tears now that he's grown

Kiss away the tears

(C) Carolyn Sheppard.