dialogue

By Kathryn Morski

A2                                       A
Love put a warming hand in mine,
A2                              A            F
Said, “I don’t know.  I like it just fine here”.
A2                                                   A
And I said, “Here, where the days are cold and grey
A2                                      A                                  F
And even the birds have flown away?  You’ve lost your mind here.”
   G                                  C
   And Love said, “Here, where the winter roots so deep,
   B                         F
   if you don’t look close you think Life’s asleep.
   G
   It’s dreaming.
   G                                  C
   “Here, where the coyotes sing the moon,
   B                      F
   And a woodfire spins its bright cocoon
   G
   Around our seeming.

F                          C                                    G            A
“It reminds me of you.  It reminds me of you!
F                          C                                    G            A
“It reminds me of you.  It reminds me of you!”

Well, I just stood and stared at the sky,
At a loss for words, though I’m not shy, just quiet.
Then I said, “So you think I look like this? 
Like an empty land set for Winter’s kiss?  I don’t buy it.
   I could smell the snow on the steady wind
   And I turned my head as a hawk sailed in to view.
   “It’s the subtleties that draw the eye,”
   Love said, “like the way that flannel sky
       Is cracked with blue.

“It reminds me of you.  It reminds me of you!
It reminds me of you.  It reminds me of you!”

“You take life hard,” Love said with a grin.
“It’s not like it’s all about lose and win.  I mean it!”
But I said, "No, I think you may be right.
"It's the way things change when you deepen sight.  I've seen it.
   “It’s there, where that leaf still clings, bright red,
   “Or the wintergreen in the forest bed, half hidden.
   “It’s the lift you get when the light breaks green
   "Under thick-banked clouds and the wind springs, clean,
       "Unbound, unbidden –

“It reminds me of you.  It reminds me of you!
“It reminds me of you.  It reminds me of you!
"It reminds me of you.  It reminds me of you!
“It reminds me of you.  It reminds me of you!"

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