Will I Remember

“Will I Remember”

(Tom Entrican – 2/10/2023)

All the friends who came to play

The army forts and fantasies

The ones I loved who went away

They had to see who they would be

The home where I learned to stay alive

My memories now they seem to blur

Those childhood dreams cannot survive

And if they do, will I remember

My love so sweet, but long since gone

Children grown and moved away

 A broken heart that’s still withdrawn

And emptiness that comes to stay

Now with the gray there comes a price

No more strength for me to render

Existence soon will lose its spice

If I survive will I remember

Suffice to say I’ve lost my touch

My coat has lost its sheen

The art in me has lost its brush

And there is no vaccine

Now as I feel me slip away

My thoughts I must surrender

This part of me forever stays

My Lord I will remember