The Search

I've looked for you in coffee shops

In city streets and subway stops

I've searched for you in crowded malls

In strange hotels and concert halls

 

I sought you out in railway cars

In quiet cafes and smoky bars

Beseeched the moon on bended knees

Andromeda and Pleiades

 

Where is the roadmap you provide

The secret code, the cosmic guide

I asked for signs, but was denied

And not one star has yet replied

 

So where my love, where do you hide

I've scanned this planet far and wide

My childhood's faith indemnified

Yet you elude me like the tide

 

And should our errant paths collide

How could we cast the past aside

The history that hides inside

The id, the ego, shame and pride

 

The heart's elixir still untried

Our jaded dreams disqualified

We have no power, we have no voice

The Gods decreed we'd have no choice

The way the seasons come and go

The way the cosmic rivers flow

The universe conducts her show

Allegro and Adagio

 

Oh mystic archipelago

Of light and dark and indigo

 

Cavafy told us long ago

We set the sails, yet must let go

The universe conducts her show

Alegro and adagio

 

But time is short, our vision blurred

Our fantasies all seem absurd

Each time a prayer remains unheard

And vanishes without a word

 

I'll sip the wine, I'll steal the flowers

Transcend the years and share the hours

My riches spent, my moments seized

The muse inspired, the spirits pleased

 

(Spoken verse)

The old man by the wayside said

The road is never straight ahead

We cannot see around each bend

Nor fathom what the fates portend

We can't predict, we can't pretend

To rewrite rules we can't amend

My warrior, my faithless friend

Might you betray me in the end

I've looked for you in coffee shops

In city streets and subway stops

Beseeched the moon on bended knees

Andromeda and Pleiades

 

Where is the roadmap you provide

The secret code, the cosmic guide

I asked for signs, but was denied

And not one star has yet replied

And not one star.. has yet replied