once when I was thirty-one I woke in the dead of night and heard the vastness of the snowfall outside slipped downstairs in my bare feet soon forgotten freezing and pour a milk glass full to wait out the tide
been a decade and one been a decade and one my friends a decade and one since I
as the white went down I thought of the child upstairs I thought of the God upstairs that I couldn't believe I thought of the chosen man asleep on his side of the bed how green becomes wood in a family tree
been a decade and one been a decade and one so soon a decade and one since I stood so proud and so unsure
ebony glowing by the window there as always fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly cool ivory returned in kind I thought of anger and adulation and the taste of dreams realized and the waste dreams realized leave behind
a decade and one a decade and one I said out loud a decade and one and I am here and I am here still standing
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