When I Was an Ice Skater

When I was young
And you were in love
With someone's shade
In a bedroom far away
Sleeping sound through soundless days

Then December gave Cambridge singing saws
And through the graves
Were you who I saw
If only I'd known I'd found your heart

And I remember when I was an ice skater
Every winter
When the lakes and ponds had frozen over

The warm barns and fields
Hazel's voice will never find
And the tree limbs
Where wе should've climbed

Starry songs swept from thе night
In my care there's a lock of your hair
An old state flag
Flown forever blown threadbare
Faded blue in the sea air

I remember when I was an ice skater
Every winter
When the lakes and ponds had frozen over