Your sad eyes glow
As your thoughts return
To the people and places you've known---
And suddenly
These memories of yours
Are more apart of me
Than my own.
- I wish that I'd been right
by your side
During every bicycle ride,
Looking at the sun as it died
Along the edge of town.
I wish that I'd grown up
with you,
I wish I'd passed your
house every night,
Breathless in the hope
that I might
Catch a glimpse of you
in the light
Before the shades went
down.
I wish on all your lonely
walks
That I had held your hand
Along those fields of bright
green stalks
On roads through pale red
land.
I wish that I'd grown up
with you,
In school I wish we'd met
in the hall,
Laughed and talked and
whispered of all
We'd do---
If I'd but known you,
If I'd but known you,
If I'd grown up with you.