Echoes

Planets meeting face to face
Bound to the air and light, how sweet
If endlessly we might embrace
A perfect union deep in space
Ever might this once relent
And give us leave to shine as one
Our two lights forever
In one light's place
And in that longing to be one
The parting summon sound is drawn
I see you've got to travel on
And on and on around the sun
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine

And no-one showed us to the land
And no-one knows the where or whys
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can

And no-one calls us to move on
And no-one forces down our eyes
And no-one speaks and no-one tries
And no-one flies around the sun