Man In An Overcoat

Sometimes there is a need to remember. To honour, to mark what has gone before, to acknowledge what was, still is but in a different form now, in my form we move forward..................

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                                                                                                                                                                                             .      A candy-coloured clown they call the Sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
"Go to sleep, everything is all right"

I close my eyes, then I drift away
Into the magic night, I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you

In dreams I walk with you
In dreams I talk to you
In dreams you're mine all of the time
We're together in dreams, in dreams

But just before the dawn
I awake and find you gone
I can't help it, I can't help it, if I cry
I remember that you said goodbye

It's too bad that all these things
Can only happen in my dreams
Only in dreams
In beautiful dreams*

And as I lay here in my bedroom alone I feel that initial feeling as tears begin to fill my eyes and as they form the overwhelming images begin, my hand held, arms around me feeling so safe, a smile that brightens your eyes so clear, the images so concise and as they sharpen I cry. I cry because I will never feel that safe, that happy, that loved ever again and so I cry to remember and as I remember;

 ‘I close my eyes and drift away’.

*In Dreams. Roy Orbison.