W/ ARMS AROUND A DREAM.

For Paul.
1968 - 1986

ARMS AROUND A DREAM.

The cruelty of daydreams,
served with melting sun.
You never saw the winter.
Life had just begun.
Candles slowly burning.
Eighteen never came.
The future lay in mourning -
as summer bought the rain.
The news we heard was numbing.
Through hopelessness we fought -
to make sense of the madness,
and the anguish that it bought.
So handsome, young and clever.
April showers cry.
Eighty six remembered.
Another year flies by.
I calculate your age now -
and wonder what you'd be.
Still living for the moment -
and laughing carelessly.
For that's what I remember.
The smile you always wore,
as lazy summer shadows -
dragged the day across the floor.
Forever young in my eye's.
Forever seventeen.
Silently remembered.
My arms around a dream.

...Neil...