Beyond My Reach - Tony Levin

The orange sun that warmed our day

becomes an oval as it sinks into the bay

we used to marvel at how fast it slips away

without a fight, so comes the night

So come the waves across the sand

so came the tides of time

erasing what we’d planned

and now the wind tugs at these letters in my hand

the ones held tight against the night

Against the future looming like a cliff above me

against the memories colliding below

the hardest lesson that this tide is washing over me

comes a time in life the only peace we’ll know

is letting go

And so this day gives in to night

across the bay the clouds go scudding out of sight

Like us the sky clings to it’s memories of light

but carries on when light is gone

I’ve scanned these words for what they teach

and now I close my eyes to see behind the speech

I let your letters fly like seagulls from the beach

they float away, beyond the bay

beyond my reach