Second Sunrise

I found your number

folded in a book

Like spring pressed flat between the years

You said my voice still sounded the same

I said your laugh still knew

my name

We spoke of children,

weather, knees Then both went quiet suddenly

Some doors close soft,

some stay awake

Waiting for two hands brave enough to shake

Your hair is silver,

mine is thin

But I still see the road we missed

The porch we painted,

the plans we made The foolish pride we could not face

Now every mile has brought me here

Older, softer, less afraid of tears

Friends will talk and time will warn us

Photographs will ask what for

But if the heart can learn forgiveness

Maybe love can learn once more

If we meet where the old road bends

I will take your hand again

Let the years say what they will

My heart remembers still Against the weather,

against the wall

Maybe late love is the bravest love of all

I was wrong to let the silence win I was proud when

I should have been kind We cannot be who we were back

then But we can begin with open eyes If morning comes and

courage stays

Meet me there and say my name If we meet where the

old road bends

I will take your hand again

Let the years say what they will

My heart remembers still

Against the weather, against the wall

Maybe late love is the bravest love

of all Maybe late love is the bravest love of all We

are not

young, but we are here And here can be enough

Take my hand

before

the night grows cold Let us learn the shape of love