It was familiar and it was carried off   No one here wants to talk about it    Anymore   He kept the promise    That he struggled to make to me   Before my own timely departure    Through the door      How did you know?    That you’re very out of tears?   Be the river that you’d follow by and by   How will we go?   When suddenly the years   Slowly drifting past   Force the question: “Why?”      I surrendered   Like you promised me I would   I did it while swimming through the river   Saying every prayer is answered   While we were running out of time   And probably never the same old twilights      It was innocent   And it carried us away   A slippery kind of playground   We asked for   In a breeze when sun detected   A sound so soft   Came our unlikely surrender   To the storm      But maybe we weren’t   Brushed out by waving light   And curiously rambling   As they took him by surprise      I only said good night   No need to wish him well   As I fought, the message reached out   We found   Every prayer is answered   And we were smoldered toward the end      And probably   Not quite   Healing will intend       How did you know?   That you’re very out of tears   Be in the river   That you drink from by and by      How will we fall?   When suddenly they appear   Slowly drifting past   Now force the question “Why?”      It was familiar   And we welcomed you with open arms   And you carried him away   But not so far   He’s all of my been-and-“did he?” times   And well-rehearsed way out   And he was everything he told me   Now quickly tumbling down      He kept through his promise   That struggled to make to me   I surrender   If he leaves…