With You from Eternity's Sunrise by Peter Ostrowski

I’ll never forget our sun
Burning brightly high above us
And when day was done swelling to deep red,
And setting fire to clouds
Against the velvet blue that followed,
Before night finally fell,
Before I closed my eyes and dreamed.

And I feel the same way too about the summer rain
That fell upon my face and bled into the soil,
Feeding all life on this Earth as the gutters filled the streams,
Which met with the great seas
Which then rose into the skies again.

Flowers grew around, in long meadow grass
And up upon the trees and on dry, crumbling walls
Wherever there was air, wherever there was light,
Wherever rainstorms reached
Colours burned in flames so wild and bright.

And always you’ll be home,
Always there in places we once called our dreams,
In those days when we could still tell apart
Dreams and our short lives,
In times we had to sleep to truly be alive.

And I hope so much you’ll turn
For another billion years or more.
I know I’ll never see the things
Which will come to pass in time,
But in the blackest night,
From beyond the crescent moon,
Beyond the furthest stars,
Our thoughts will be with you.

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