A parade crosses the dead center of my heart You come, clicking your heels A melody, just learned, to an empty plaza Lighting a rose-colored lamp and moving on Lively dreams soon slip through your two hands And confetti dances up in a tiny wind Rather than tears of farewel,l try carefully placing The excitement of meeting inside your heart The syncopation you left behind in your shoeprints Continues on beyond the morning mist In a town somewhere, in someone's dreams It's gone to light a warm lamp Rather than the sadness of farewells, the joy of meeting Piles up bit by bit, facing the light A staircase rises in spirals to the sky And, piercing the red rainclouds, becomes a rainbow No matter where you are, though you may be in a distant and If you listen hard, you can hear it--that song