THE SMALLEST EMBER

I know we gotta part now
Our time here is brief
I hope you will remember
With more joy than with grief

In evening silence overtakes us
Now we can hear the stars
They whisper the distance between us
Is not so very far

The frost is on the leaves now
The fire’s burning bright
See how the smallest ember
Bravely defies night

So cast off all that binds us
To burden and to care
And see again through new eyes
This world so bright and fair