This Is One Of Those Moments

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 hearing
 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 lesson of the leaves
 I can enter rooms where there are rooms within rooms
 Wrapped in a shawl that learning weaves
 I remember, Papa
 Everything you've 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
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 I can open doors and take from the shelves
 All the books I've longed to hold
 I can ask all the questions, the why's and the where's
 As the mysteries of life unfold
 Like a link in a chain from the past to the future
 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 take 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 about to be mine
 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