Jimmie Dale Gilmore

One Endless Night

Jimmie Dale Gilmore


One Endless night 
So very long ago 
Close as the moment 
I held someone 
To be the last 
To be the only one 
For all and everything 
One Endless night.

When you awoke 
And told me of your dream 
The waves that rolled across 
The starry skies 
And broke upon 
Your heart and disappeared 
And promised everything 
One Endless night.

I see you now 
And I suppose 
Everything's changed and rearranged
But no-one knows 
The why or how 
Or if it might 
Be what depends on how it ends 
One Endless night.

Your gift to me 
Is nothing I can hold 
The silence fades away 
To find the song. 
This, too, shall pass 
We two and everything 
And this your gift to me 
One Endless night. 
This is your gift to me 
One Endless night.