The Years We Shared

You bloomed like the rose of summer And I held you in my arms And in that knowing I found purpose We walked on the stars The world changes, we get older What comes in love must leave in pain And all the gifts we early treasure The world takes away The years we shared Will find their beating in a heart somewhere But the traces of our greatest days Will fade away From the pier the ships are leaving The seeds to saplings grow Saplings first turn to forests Then ships of oak Fair winds blow through the journey And I watch you from afar Sailing on distant oceans Of eternal calm The years we shared When it all started, it came like poetry A vision our truth awakened