Long After Lights Out - Common Rider

Did you say all the things you meant to say

Silence has a way of arriving unannounced

If you could have said but one more little line

That you thought was timely

But you couldn’t find the time

Time may find you, speak your mind

(and your heart that’s the most important part)

At the end of the daylight hours

When you slip into the nighttime powers

Don’t you leave thing to long after

Long after lights out

Did you do all the things you wanted to

Sleep comes much too quickly

To the ones who do not move

If you could have done

Just one more little thing

That you thought important but you

Waited in the wings- wings are made for

Taking flight (rock steady in the kingdom of

The night)

Powers of hte night

In a blue nocturne

Gather in mists

And await your return