To Let You Go

I wake up in a memory
I cannot put my dream to sleep
I feel you in the room with me
I feel the darkness in the deep
You step so lightly on the sand
And thread the liquid undertow
But I can’t hold you by the hand
I have to learn to let you go

Again we spin inside a dance
Upon the edge of our last day
So little life fits in a chance
To look for words I cannot say
We move together on the sand
And thread the liquid undertow
I couldn’t hold you by the hand
I had to learn to let you go

I can’t reduce you to a song
I can’t remake a memory
I must admit that I was wrong
To keep you in this room with me
I see the darkness in the stream
I slip into the undertow
When I can free you from my dream
I will have learned to let you go