a mellow ballad
the reality of 2023
almost to the end
Copyright 2023 Bradley Garfield Needham
All rights reserved
the night is coming
no need to pretend
the light is fading
losing a new friend
my dreams are dying
on the shoals of evening tide
my hope is crying
on those shores beyond my time
where is the love
my heart has truly spent
it's never enough
and i'm almost to the end
where is the love
in the lives that i have met
it's never enough
and i'm almost to the end
a sense of foreboding
a tear of neglect
a fear of forgetting
the years, the regrets
and all for nothing
even with entropy well spent
so quiet is this stilling
of almost to the end
where is the love
my heart has truly spent
it's never enough
and i'm almost to the end
where is the love
in the lives that i have met
it's never enough
and i'm almost to the end
the world grows silent
below those twinkling lights
passing their remembrance
of all those years in flight
I smile at the moments
and the meandering of life
Lost in the comments
all wondering what its like
where is the love
my heart has truly spent
it's never enough
and i'm almost to the end
where is the love
in the lives that i have met
it's never enough
and i'm almost to the end
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love?
where is the love
my heart has truly spent
it's never enough
and i'm almost to the end