Isis

I once loved a girl her hair it was brown

She lived in the nearby seaside town

It was all in the summer of my nineteenth year

Though 'tis long ago, the memory is clear

We used to sit upon her parents sofa

From where we'd go trippingly but never go far

We'd listen to Dylan and Hendrix and Gong

And the Grateful Dead we'd also stick on

She taught me to make dahl and chop garlic small

And perfect white clouds to paint on the wall

And eat with a teaspoon and sip herbal tea

But when she left it was painful for me

It was the time all my lights converged

I hope I wasn't too much of a twerp

What I wished to be then I have now become

I've sung it and spun it, begun it and won it

That scant time passed and was fleetingly gone

All my feelings knocked out and broken and wrong

Through these smashed windows I sorrowful stared

To think of the time when she had been there

We used to hitch up to Glastonbury town

Bristol, Wye  Valley we'd do the rounds

Then one time in Cotham she finished with me

Though I tried not to I went miserably

The year had turned round to All Hallow's eve

The death knelling one gave no reprieve

And split us in two to end my childhood

I can't have it back I know it's no good

She became the icon of my inner eye

You'll have to ask the master bards why

She's formed into many but is really just one

I set off on my journey, it's still going on

I found myself floating in a sea of days

That never seemed to end though songs showed the way

They went on and on till last I saw shore

My many steps led to the White Spring's door

I sat and prayed at the clear crystal pool

My heart opened, a rare hidden jewel

Connected to the water that flows at this shrine

Healing my heart in a manner sublime

How merry, how glad did this make me feel

And I knew the turn of that cosmic wheel

The circle had met but only just drawn

The players all gathered outside before dawn

And a vision opened up to us

That had been subsumed by the Halloween curse

Again to sprout at verdant Beltane

When sunlight and laughter appeared once again

Meanwhile my prayers had formed a bridge

Some others sat about playing the didge

The waters rippled and the recorders played

And my Muse appeared through the gap we had made

I spoke to Her at length of the spear

Thrust into my side like Keats's for his dear

As I for my love and you for yours

She came in and out and we spoke for hours

Oh how dearly, how dearly do I hold near

These moments of memories of which you do hear

Inside Her Temple, the Goddess did reach

Into my soul me solace to teach

(repeat first verse : 'I once loved a girl...'

and then first chorus : 'It was the time all my lights converged...')