Undone

If you ever need someone
to shield you from the rain,
like a river I will run,
I would always be the one.
For I can see your wisdom rise
like a phoenix starting to fly.
In the tender arms of our love
We’d be undone

If you ever need someone
to guide you through the storm
I would cross the mighty tide
where the sky and sea divide.
For my lover’s heart is strong,
when it comes to love’s tender thorn.
In the arms of our love
We’d be undone.

Can you hear me calling?
Oh, my buddy, I will always be
in the whisper of an ocean breeze.
I will meet you
on the long ride home.

– Adapted lyrics by Michael Bayly
of Kiki Dee & Carmello Luggeri’s song, “I’d Be Undone”
(from the 2022 album The Long Ride Home)

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 16, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 4, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – August 25, 2022
• Summer Vignettes
• When Sorrow Comes
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 25, 2021
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• Autumn, Adnan . . . and Art?
• Just One Wish
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 29, 2021
• Blue Yonder
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – June 24, 2021
• What We Crave
• Skylight
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 30, 2021
• November Musings
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – November 18, 2020
• Today I Will Be Still
• Adnan in Morning Light
• It’s You
• The Landscape Is a Mirror
• Out and About – Spring 2020
• Family Time in Guruk . . . and Glimpses of Somaliland
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – July 15, 2019
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – July 14, 2019
• Adnan . . . Amidst Mississippi Reflections and Forest Green
• Adnan . . . with Sunset Reflections and Jet Trail
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – April 16, 2019
• In This In-Between Time
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – March 29, 2019

Image: Saaxiib Qurux Badan (“Beautiful Friend”), Minneapolis, MN – Michael J. Bayly (1/22/23).