Thursday, January 13, 2005

abbey lincoln sings to me

For all we know
we may never meet again.
Before you go
make this moment sweet again.
We won't say good night
until the last minute--
I hold out my hand
and my heart will be in it.

For all we know
this may only be a dream.
We come and go
like the ripples in a stream.
So love me tonight;
tomorrow was made for some.
Tomorrow may never come,
for all we know.


Her voice is raw, frayed and scratched, bearing years of happiness and pain and misery and mourning. I can't stop listening. "Repeat" on the iPod, over and over again.

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