Decade and One - Vienna Teng

Once when I was thirty-one

I woke in the dead of night

And heard the vastness of the snowfall outside

Slipped downstairs in my bare feet

Soon forgotten freezing

And poured a milk glass full

To wait out the tide

Been a decade and one

Been a decade and one my friends

A decade and one

Since I…

As the white went down

I thought of the child upstairs

I thought of the God upstairs

That I couldn’t believe

I thought of the chosen man

Asleep on his side of the bed

How green becomes wood

In a family tree

Been a decade and one

Been a decade and one so soon

A decade and one

Since I stood

So proud

And so unsure

Ebony glowing by the window there

As always

Fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly

Cool ivory returned in kind

I thought of anger and adulation

And the taste of dreams realized

And the waste dreams realized leave behind

A decade and one

A decade and one

I said out loud

A decade and one

And I am here

And I am here still standing