Do You Remember?

A long time ago when we were kids,
Do you remember the dreams we had,
Do you remember the things we did.
And at night when all across the land,
People were sound asleep,
Dreaming and counting sheep,
Do you remember me coming to your window sill,
And standing there quiet and still,
Until you would open the glass,
And come tumbling out,
And we would run through the grass,
And we would laugh and shout,
Breaking the silence of the night,
Signaling our freedom,
Soaring like birds in flight,
Like a King and Queen in their kingdom.
Do you remember?

And some years later when we were still young,
When promises easily rolled from our tongues,
And we lived a love story straight from a book,
Do you remember the vow that we took?
Do you remember the words we said?
How we would always stay together,
And no matter what we did,
We would do it together forever?
Do you remember?
And it was then that I told you that I don't forget,
That if ever I died I would die by your side,
And you told me with eyes uncorrupted and wet,
With eyes of an angel, tender and wide,
That you too would cherish and care for my love,
And cuddle me up like a hand in a glove.
That always you'd be there wherever we went,
Standing up straight, or withering bent,
And then I believed you and closed my eyes.
And there on the grass we bolted our ties,
There on that fated grass started the lies.
And witness to this are the vast, blue skies.

And today as we near the end and slowly fade,
I sit home alone and I think and I wonder,
I think of the mistake that I obviously made
I ask was it me, or did we both blunder?
But somewhere for sure a wrong turn was taken,
And from my sweet dream I was violently awakened,
To find you long gone and me long forgotten,
Despite all the promises I had gotten.
And a thousand times a day I die,
And inside me I constantly simmer and cry,
Whenever around me your image does hover,
Whenever I see you in the arms of your lover.
And desperately I ask, do you remember?
The days of our youth, when our love was so tender.
A love which we thought could never grow stronger...
How could you forget, and will you ever remember?

(Abdel-Rahman Semman)