Merry Solstice, Rhiannon Evenstar

 
CAPO II
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Merry Solstice, Rhiannon Evenstar, wherever you may be;
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I hope the weather favors your design.
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Though you prob’ly wouldn’t recognize the ugly duck in me,
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We knew each other once upon a time.

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You were always the cool big sister I wished that I had had,
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With your Tarot and your Tolkien and your boysenberry wine;
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And I have to say it honestly, I’m where I am today
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‘Cause we knew each other once upon a time.

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Poised on the hilltop – the music and lights
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I held in till I thought I would burst
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Longing to take wing.
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But scared of the height,
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I waited for you to jump first.



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You said we knew each other in another time and space
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Where the Nile and the Milky Way combined;
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But I have to tell you honestly, I’m better off today
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Than I would be if you were still a friend of mine.

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Leaf boats go sailing, and pages they fade,
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Who can keep track of these things?
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Some chicks just have to drop their weights
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When they tie the apron strings.

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So now I’m dozing at the coffee pot
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With my suitcase half unpacked
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Of mementos from Australia and Fiji.
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Yes the years have drowned the bitter scenes, Rhiannon, that we made;
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I just hope you learned a thing or two from me.
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Last I heard of, you were moving to B.C.;
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Merry Solstice, wherever you may be.