Again
from the film "Road House," 1948
In memory of Brian Rust, "father
of modern discography"
who died at 88 on January 5th, 2011—
Photo from Richard Newton at Flickr taken June 12, 2009
Again, this couldn't happen again.
This is that "once in a lifetime,"
this is the thrill divine.
What's more, this never happened before
though I have prayed for a lifetime
that such as you would suddenly be mine.
Mine to hold as I'm holding you now
and yet never so near,
mine to have when the now and the here disappear.
What matters, dear,
for when this doesn't happen again
we'll have this moment forever
but never, never again.
- Dorcas Cochran