Night Falls

Night Falls
Time has shown its face
Too many words
Too many hopes and too much we've learned
Life won't wait in comfortable chairs
You look so bleak without a care

Sometimes her eyes close before nightfall
And sometimes my eyes close before nightfall
Cancer calls
Dancing on the seams
Leaves from a tree, all that fades and all that we feed
I can be brave if you can be bare
Stripping the life and taking what's there
Take these wings and learn to fly
Hold these eyes which never cry
Watch on me just like a child