Lake’s Embrace
Lake’s Embrace
Our lake is a presence outside my house,
A lover, a friend, entertainment, a spouse
Calling and whispering soft to my ears
Easing, erasing all my fears.
Walk with me now on the lake’s granite shores
Where eagles and bears can be seen
Hike in the mountains ‘neath bright starry skies
Feeling again for yourself what true freedom means.
There was a time once when this lake and I
Were joined by youth’s strength and its beauty serene.
Though time has passed and I’m grown gray
The lake in its majesty remains and will stay.
To be renewed for a while is in everyone’s reach
To walk in the woods or stroll on the beach
Feel again the sweet call of an oncoming spring
Hear the owl’s nightly calls, watch the jays on the wing.
To know that we all can again for a while
Feel ourselves at the lake as we once were a child.
There’s a spirit within us which can never age
Though we move through our lives — just like turning the page
Of a book, at the lake.
Which has never once failed
To quicken our hearts. Though the wind o’er the rail
Blows us further and further from shore;
Upon the great lake of life we’ll sail
Evermore.
