Stephen R Coffee ©2005
The way the light embraced your skin
As the sun was going down
As if it couldn’t bear let go
Such a perfect brown
The way the wind played in your hair
As we lay among the dunes
Feeling the rhythm of the waves
And the pull of the moon
If I could catch the rising tide
And sail back to that night
If only I could reason with the wind
Get the waves to break just right
Then maybe I could find you
Touch you
Hold you
Once you were here on our island in time
The music carried on the breeze
As we gave in to the night
Watching the spray rise off the sea
To scatter the light
For those hours beneath the moon
I touched perfection’s face
But daylight found me stranded here
In time and space
(Repeat chorus)
These memories are like the shells
I find in my daily vigil the shore
A shadow of what lived before
In every one I hear your voice
The seasons find their way around
To the place where they began
There must be cycles in the waves
And clouds and man
So now I search along the seam
Separating sea and sand
Hoping to slip between the cracks
In heaven’s plan
If I could catch the rising tide
And drift back to that night
If only I could reason with the wind
Get the waves to break just right
If I could weave a net of stars
And sweep it through the sea
Maybe it would yield its secrets up
To reveal eternity
Then maybe I could find you
Touch you
Hold you
Once you were here on this island in time