The Port Beyond The Bend

far down the river run a bird escapes its cage a wildcat stalks its prey a young man turns a page the waters flow with fate to join a larger stream perhaps to bring us pain perhaps to grant a dream the planet never stops its journey round the sun and love conspires with time until its day is done and one man falls asleep before the dawn will break as tears of grief must come another heart will ache the river's course is long and no one sees the end that holds our destiny the port beyond the bend