What Stays

Going through the night by moonlight,
To an ancient town in ruins,
Along an old and broken footpath,
Never pausing at a turning.


The moon was low above the ruins,
The night was quiet, dark and wide.
No voice was calling from the shadows,
Yet something walked there by my side.

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Some places never fade away,
Though years may take their names.
Some things are lost with yesterday,
But memory remains.


There is a fire beneath the silence,
Of lives that vanished long ago.
Young rowan grows among the ruins,
And green leaves shine where shadows grow.

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Some places never fade away,
Though years may take their names.
Some things are lost with yesterday,
But memory remains.


Far away from there I wander,
Years have changed the roads I know.
Somewhere deep inside my memory,
That old night still seems to glow.


What is left... an empty space,
A place I will forget?
The path, the wind, the ancient stones...
They may remember us instead.

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Some places never fade away,
Though years may take their names.
Some things are lost with yesterday,
But memory remains.