I try to write one each month on the theme announced for the pioneer valley folklore society meeting.....this month's theme is "age".....this turned out to be something of a melancholy waltz.......


Age….                                                                  michael orlen © 2007

typical kids in a typical time
in a typical New England town
with all of our power and all of our promise
and all of our defenses down
no thought of college or war
and no knowledge of failure to get in our way
whether your life and mine ever find the same page
I'll be thinking of you as I age….

typical girl typical boy
typical Saturday dance
and you so appealing and me with the feeling
of falling in love at first glance
and no way to know how the future would go
or that this might be ending someday
whether your love and mine ever find the same page
I'll be thinking of you as I age….

I'll be thinking of you when I'm lying at night
In the spell of a September sky
The words will be there at the tip of my tongue
But with no one to hear them nearby

typical kids in a typical time
and a feeling that won't go away
whether your act and mine ever find the same stage
I'll be thinking of you as I age….