FOR A MOMENT, I HAVE BEEN

At night, I hear the whippoorwills
And the southbound rolling train
I like it when I float away
On the wind, like a ghost, in the rain

Souls, they come and go out here
I hear them on the wind
In the late days of July, like fog in the sky
When the August crickets sing

And I've given myself over
To the force that moves the river
I've lost the cause to fight it
But I'm happy anyway

It's always in the little things
Like the honeysuckle opening
Like riding on the summer waves
To feel like you are flying

My feet, they slip on cold, gray stone
But I have found the way back home
I am gone when the thunder rolls
I return with the wind at my back

Heaven exists upon the earth
And it's a place that I have been
When the sun comes down to melt the snow
And the daffodils are opening

For a moment, I am not myself
And the world is something more
The sunshine turns the river gold
And I want nothing more

And I've given myself over
To the force that moves the river
I've lost the cause to fight it
But I'm happy anyway

It's always in the little things
The whippoorwill, at night, she sings
There are places where heaven connects with the earth
And for a moment, I have been.