All my dreams are scattered stars

Unreachable, far flung,

Thoughts that I wrote down somewhere

But songs I’ve never sung.

All my life is a vast parade,

Of people not to stay,

Who marched across my heart and soul

Then packed their drums away.

The candles on each birthday cake,

Or wishbones rent in two,

And pennies in a wishing well

Haven’t made my dreams come true.

Where’s the rock of my Gibraltar,

Where’s my Gabriel, my knight?

Where’s the one I shine my castle for,

My king of candlelight?

I had my chance to settle down

To rest on foreign land

But I needed someone worth waiting for

Not an ordinary man.

I could have sailed on strange new oceans

Or drifted on the tide

But my passionate need for soul to soul

Kept haunting me inside.

You’ll never know the trail of tears

Between from there to here,

The prism wishes in each drop,

Hopes that I held dear.

Now too late to capture them

Like fireflies in jars,

They‘ll never glow and glitter bright

Lit up like scattered stars.