Counting

Counting - Bob Lind

Now is the glimmering spinning beginning

Of something I've prayed for and counted the minutes

To be in the shadows of sheltering meadows

Of night here with you in my arms

Nothing is breathing as sunset is leaving

Except you and I in the stillness of moonlight

We're tenderly touching in silent caresses

Counting on time to slow down

This is the moment that pauses to hold us

As you and I move in a background of wonder

Surrounded by countless enclosures

Of nocturnal unspoken music of joy

Counting times I have stood at the foot

Of your ivory tower

And waited and called out your name by the hour

And counted on wings of my heartstrings to carry

The sound I have counted on fleeting

You'd see how I need you come down

And now between twilight and midnight

You've come to me

Down in your gown of soft moonbeams and starlight

Bright in the evening the breezes have fenced us

And nestled against us

You're here

And warm

And mine till the time when the dawn will awake me

The morning will shake me

The highway will take me

But now while the rays

Of the moon make bouquets

We will swim in the luster of lingering streetlights

And count on the night to hold everything even

And count on forgetting that I will be leaving

When heaven has folded and let in the dawn

I'll be gone

But now as the gardens of softening nighttine

Are blossoming slowly around where we are

You and I come together and walk through

The dreams of the stars

So here while song of the deepening evening

Is singing to me from the light in your eyes

We can count on each other to move to

The beach of tomorrow

And know where we've been