Won’t You Stay

If you please won’t you stay dear lady,

And for you, I will sing this song

Cannot say the words will come easy

They’ve been hiding deep inside for far too long

I was once young and full of promise

But I’m not what I used to be

Too many tears have washed away my footprints

And I cannot find the way back home you see

Look at all the stars beyond my dusty windows wheeling

How beautiful they are as they go drifting on their way

To heaven or to hell, to sunlight or to dark unfeeling

Wish I knew….   Lady, won’t you stay?

© George Phillips, 2019

Van Gogh's Starry Night on the Rhone, 1888
from the Musée d'Orsay