Cheers

The grass behind my house where I used to lay
Has frozen by time now.
And I haven't touched those glades in awhile
Nor seen the green that stays there still
In the same place it always has been.

The street shoes I wore after they were popular
After the holes tore them apart
Until they were replaced by bigger feet.
They stay still somewhere, unknown.
Humble for all the work they have done.
Maybe someone else wears them today.

The people I've passed that I never had the time
To get to know.
Perhaps they went on to find happy endings,
I'll never know them the way I could have.

The thoughts I have followed until I couldn't continue
Where did they lead?
I can't know...
Because I wasn't strong enough to find out...

In spite of it all, I make a toast.

Here's
To the dances never danced,
And the smiles never smiled.

To the dreams we followed,
Making it all worth while.

To the love we lost,
And the love we came to find.

To the end of the beginning of our lives,
And a peaceful mind.

Amen.

I acknowledge the passing of time
And my own mortality.
I accept the truth of reality.