O STRANGER, HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?
Somedays
As the wind blows by my side
I wonder
O Stranger, how have you been?
Somedays
As the rain comes falling down
I wonder
O Stranger, how have you been?
When I feel the warmth of a fire late on a winter’s night
When I sense the joy of a flower at a spring’s dawn
When I gaze onto the full moon of a summer evening
When I sight the leaves yellowed by an autumn day
O Stranger
I wonder how have you been.
When the moon hangs low just before the day breaks
When I pull the blankets tighter on a cold cold night
When the mountains echo back the things that were said
When I look at those fields of lilies in full bloom
O Stranger
I wonder how have you been.
Do you still remember the feel of my hand through your hairs?
Do you still drift off back to those slow starry nights of us?
Do you still hear the sounds of dusk and recall that promise beneath the bridge?
Do you still see someone crossing you by and for a moment freeze in your steps?
The eons between us
The parsecs separating us
The silence stretching to eternity and beyond
The winter that has frozen over summer twice
But on those few days
The years just slip by
And you appear just like yesterday
In a random word heard down the street
In a specific song playing on the wireless
In a wordless melody of the thrush on a branch
In a monsoon sunrise caught over the clouds
I wonder
I wonder
O stranger, how have you been?
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