There are moments you remember all your life.

There are moments you wait for and dream,

Of all your life.

This is one of those moments.

I will always remember this chair,

that window, the way the light streams in.

The clothes I'm wearing,

The words I'm heating,

The face I'm seeing,

The feeling I'm feeling,

The smell, the sounds, will be written

On my mind, will be written in my heart

As long as I live!

I can, travel the past and take what I need

To see me through the years

What my father learned and his

Father before him will be there

For my eyes and ears.

I can walk through the forests

Of the trees of knowledge

And listen to the lessons of the leaves.

I can enter rooms

Were there are rooms within rooms

Wrapped in the shawl that learning weaves.

I remember, Papa-everything you taught me

What you gave me, Papa-

Look at what it's brought me

There are certain things that once you have

No man can take away-

No wave can wash away-

No wind can blow away-

And now they're about to be mine!

No tide can turn away-

No fire can burn away-

No time can wear away...

I can open doors and take from the shelves

All the books I've longed to hold

I can ask all the questions,

The whys and the wheres

As the mysteries of life unfold

Like a link in a chain

From the past to the future

That joins me with the children yet to be,

I can now be a part

Of the ongoing stream,

That has always been a part of me!

There are certain things that once you have

No man can rake away-

No wave can wash away-

No wind can blow away-

No tide can turn away-

No fire can burn away-

No time can wear away-

And now they're