I was fourteen and lost in the dream 
Til she rendered it everything it had never been
And a lightning crack struck the stone 
To tell me I was never alone
Not in my darkest day
You know the one I wanted to make go away
In the summer as I watched her die
Slowly and I couldn’t cry
Coz a tear might mean I would miss a moment 
With her and wouldn’t own it 
There was that morning I came and had breakfast with you 
Cornflakes with warm milk and you
Put the heater on under my feet 
So that I might meet a warmer day
Why did you have to go away
I ask myself that all the time 
And almost twenty years line
The road that took you from me 
Do you remember that day we 
Almost had a game of cards 
But someone came in and something hard
I had to accept
Was that I would have to regret 
The time we almost played rummy on the settee 
I know you were doing it for me 
And you ask for ice cream and jelly
Just days before you die and my belly
Still aches for your rhubarb tart 
The one you make like a work of art 
As you coat each piece in sugar and give some to me
Say good things come to those who wait and my heart is set free
From some imaginary chains 
It’s been nothing but torrential rains 
Since 2004
I keep thinking you’ll walk in the door 
Like that time up in UCD 
For a moment I could swear that we
Are both in the same room 
Or the student union shop if I’m singing in tune
But it passes almost as soon as it comes 
And I grasp again at when I was young 
And I was sitting on your knee 
I know you’ve been set free
It’s just I know you’d never leave me 
So this Heaven you speak of has gotta be
Nearer than close, than intimacy 
Could it be that you are One with me
Like the Buddhists describe
That you are really still alive 
Just in another dimension 
And the veil fell without mention 
Of the aforementioned fact 
The ones you’ve lost you can get back 
If you just trust the bough to break 
God puts you there for your own sake 

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