Decade And One

Once when I was thirty-one I woke in the dead of night And heard the vastness of the snowfall outside Slipped downstairs in my bare feet Soon forgotten freezing And pour a milk glass full To wait out the tide Been a decade and one Been a decade and one my friends A decade and one Since I As the white went down I thought of the child upstairs I thought of the God upstairs That I couldn't believe I thought of the chosen man Asleep on his side of the bed How green becomes wood In a family tree Been a decade and one Been a decade and one so soon A decade and one Since I stood So proud And so unsure Ebony glowing by the window there As always Fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly Cool ivory returned in kind I thought of anger and adulation And the taste of dreams realized And the waste dreams realized leave behind A decade and one A decade and one I said out loud A decade and one And I am here And I am here still standing --- Decade and One - Vienna Teng