Say my name

When a tree susurrates

Once and again telling a story lost in time

The way it starts

And the way it ends

Never again making up stories in dismay

With several starts

But just one end

Hah-hah

How I long to embrace

The future breaking out of shades

From the past

Still ablaze

Save your tears

For the day so far away

To irrigate the wilderness that's still asleep

In the world

Waiting to be lit

To spread over the riverbeds so dry and dead

Let ships that ran aground

Re-launch their sails

Hah-hah

How I long to embrace

The future breaking out of shades

From the past

Still ablaze

Seeds bear new life

When flowers dare to fade

Petals linger about

Awaiting one last dance

Shaking off all the dust from the past

New stories have yet to start