WHO WERE YOU? 1
(Written in 1996)

I'd met you twenty-five years before

You were like a shining star

So beautiful that you stuck in my mind

Who would have thought

That five hundred miles south

In a line for an audition for Wheel of Fortune

We'd meet again simply because you looked familiar

And that I'd even recognized your name

Now I can't remember it at all

Oh, it's terrible being ill and getting older

There's a pain and an emptiness inside

Since I've racked my brain just to remember your name

And because I may never see you again

When just to look upon you would be such a blessing

But I always seem to walk away

From contact with other souls, feeling so empty and hurt

Like we never even touched at all

Something is missing in my heart every day

Due to fact that we can't seem to bridge the chasm

Oh, it's so terrible growing older and having this sickness