Revision

I was working on a song a while back but I had two melodies and then two titles and finally I figured out that I had two different songs all mixed up. Some additional lyrics and a bit of sorting and I think I got the two of them separated.

Strangely Familiar

strangely familiar looks back at me
questioning eyes
what do they see?
two roads diverged in a wood
far down one before me stood
a man who had been set apart
is this the end or just the start?

strangely familiar
familiar stranger
too old or too new?
do I know you?

deep or shallow?
trash or prize?
the scope is hard to recognize
ambiguous his state of mind
sorting too little and too late
the hidden path is hard to find
a time has come to stop and wait

strangely familiar
familiar stranger
too old or too new?
do I know you?


Wilderness Solitude

Sunny and gritty
hot dry wind
empty vistas with no end
quietly welcome each new day
one step at a time will find the way
to deal with all that has me vexed
and move along to what comes next

wilderness solitude
wilderness solitude
...wilderness
...solitude

Listen to silence
loud and clear
ponder the weight of what I hear
life was moving way too fast
headlong into a desert vast
no telling how long it will last
one day it will be in the past

wilderness solitude
wilderness solitude