from the 2004 mini-album 'Snapshot'
So was it just the catching on
That turned the blazes out o'here?
And caught the sashes burning
They were waving in the satin rushing of the breeze
Waking final murmer pathways as
The Hill that lifted up Horizon-wise
Struggled to call the search needless
In the pink and furtive pressures of the fading reasons why
The Road it carries ever on
And turns and winds upon its course
Looking back is striking forth
For our memories' orientation
Is our future's focussed tryst
Do you ever wonder why it's ever so?
Oh, but why on Earth, now, should you though?
'Cause it's only my direction (see?)
That turns my miond to ponder on
The distant flashing glimmer of a similar yesterday
And turn, discern, cover your eyes
And take the time to look inside
Your sould your path your ticking round
And strange untravelled hazy paths
That now stand before you, real
And look between then, and today
Your frame of reference for the Way
And stand in shoes of those who dared
In days long gone, so well-prepared in your mind's eye
To walk the way you didn't dare to go
The Road it carries ever on
The Road it carries ever on
The places I have been are as important as
The people I have known
Even if it's early days, perhaps
To speak in retrospective terms
Even if I one day travel further ways
This pregnant time long-flown
Cycles may yet intersect and repeat what I've shown...
© JMWH 16/05/98