The Wonder That You Were Poem by jim hogg

I've mined and drilled for years now
And was so surprised to find
Someone I'd rarely thought of
At the centre of my life

And I found you on the journey
Through the battles won and lost
All the wonders, and the beauty
All the best that this world brought


I could have kept on singing
That old song I've always sung
For good or ill they tell us
That we've only got the one

But some moments fall upon us
Just like snowflakes on the shore
And there in those fleeting instants
Change the shape of all we know


It happened when I saw you
And in seconds flown too soon
I trembled at the memory
Of the wonder that was you

On those nights beneath the streetlights
In a town so far from here
And could barely hold together
All I thought worth holding dear


Regrets and smiles came crowding
But what matters most of all
In our losing war with time
Is that I can still recall

All those certain things about you
I'd been running from since then
Though I'll never find the words to
Match the wonder that you were



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