Images Within My Mind

© 2012 Mark Cote

second hand dancing fast
like it might be her last
vestige in this place and time
youthful fountain she won't find

lines are drawn upon my face
charcoal and crayon cannot erase
the good the bad my soul entwined
the images within my mind

(chorus) Images
                one of a kind
                images that I find
                images
                sweet or unkind
                these images within my mind

we see the world a different way
some see tomorrow some see today
when we face mortality
what really is reality

with each year a pictograph
the old man cries a baby laughs
on this road we can't rewind
the images within our mind

(chorus)

liquid diamonds in the sand
as they pass from hand to hand
won't be with you when you're gone
just a whisper in a song

pools of fools swimming down
the whirlpool doesn't make a sound
until the stone they're enshrined
now images within my mind

(chorus)