"It was a pleasant distraction…"

"It was a pleasant distraction…"

I think as I look to the morning sun.

I grimace at the words in my head

Those were things that Zhou had said.

Day and night, she is on my mind

Things of the past I can't leave behind

Fire was in her eyes, her hands and her spirit

Even in the end, her will would not submit.

We press on in our pursuit, her name never spoken

She is in our thoughts because our hearts are broken.

I know that pain is better than words can say

As I go on living with it day by day

In that moment of our embrace

It was a time and a memory I cannot erase

Something between us was meant to be

She is out there somewhere waiting for me.

This my heart tells me is true

As we sail out to the ocean blue.