Through These Corridors - Nick Langen

A new land bathes in the dawn’s early rays

Distant hills wear a shroud of gray

A lonely breeze whispers in the trees

Fleeting memories rise

The eyes of the house as vacant as night

Save for one watchful candlelight

Flickering almost in vain

Comforting yet cold

And yet all is well

Through these corridors

Hope itself long buried deep

A remnant of my past

Dislodges from my enclosing breast

And matches the glow of the hearth

Relics are my company here

My visitors are few

An island bathes in the dawns early rays

Enclosing hills shroud me in gray

A lonely breeze howls through these trees

And yet all is well

Through these corridors