Too Long Ago

Stealing away to a distant field, hidden far from the lights of town, we lay in the grass on a secret night, watching the Perseids shower down. There we witnessed the universe. show off amazing fire and grace, to strike a spark within our hearts, for we were hidden in that place. And when I turned to see your eyes, reflect the stars so far above, I knew your lips called for a kiss, to seal our covenant of love. And late in August every year, the falling stars still rain their fire. Though you are far away as they, I still recall that night's desire. But fires that blaze on summer nights, must go the way all fires must go, returned again to ash and dust, to fade away in afterglow.