Elegy for Eve

Strange how returning
Kindles the yearning
Yearnings you've learned to restrain

Love can be tragic
Yet there is magic
In living it over again

Feelings of sadness
Feelings of gladness
Feelings of pleasure and pain

Feelings of longing
Resembling sorrow
As mist resembles the rain

Strange how returning
Kindles the yearning
Yearnings you've learned to restrain

Love can be tragic
Yet there is magic
In living it over again

Here's where we used to stand
We'd watch the dawn
Stealing down the street
The infant days
Silver-sandaled feet
Tenderly brushed aside
Our summer night

Your tears fell upon my hand
The lonely years echoed your goodbye
And to this day I wonder why
And every now and then, I must return again
To take a backward look
Alone

Strange how returning
Kindles the yearning
Yearning you've learned to restrain

Love can be tragic
Yet there is magic
In living it over again

Feelings of sadness
Feelings of gladness
Feelings of pleasure and pain

Feelings of longing
Resembling sorrow
As mist resembles the rain

Strange how returning
Kindles the yearning
Yearning you've learned to restrain

Love can be tragic
Yet there is magic
In living it over again