Chickadees (And Sipping Tea)

This isn't what I foresaw
 For you and me
 But here we are
 Post [missing] tea
 The chickadees have come again
 To partake in their daily bread
 I look to you and watch your hands
 Fumbling with your golden band
 Fumbling with your pipe
 And all your notions of a twenty-year-old man
 How did we get so gray
 Somewhere along the way?
 You lay your burdens down
 The happy beyond the dreams
 The things I wanted for myself
 Fit me like some hand-me-down
 They weren't as important as the years
 Of softness with my little girl
 And finding meaning in a world
 Where you are, where we are, where we love
 Fumbling with my hair
 I'll place your finger in my mouth and hold you there
 I hold you there
 I hold you there
 Another year, another snow
 You place the morning feeders out
 I see surrender in your gate
 Of things forgotten by middle age
 The sailing seas, the foreign lands
 Of anchored in the every man
 A miracle, a little bird
 Has come aloft onto our world
 Fumbling with my heart again
 Chickadees and sipping tea
 Chickadees and sipping tea