A shadow flickered past my window last night

In the shadows when the moon was out of sight

Was it your memory, come to check up on me

I whispered to myself “Let it be, let it be”

I heard your voice as I walked through the park

It crept in between the robin and meadow lark

I stopped and searched the flowers and the trees

Perhaps it was just the buzzing of the bees

Was that your smile in a blaze of early sunshine?

No, just another memory of when you were mine

For a cloud soon dimmed nature’s opening act

Sadness reached but I said “Don’t look back, don’t look back”  

I thought I heard someone call your name out loud

My eyes roamed for your smiling face in the crowd

Then I saw the man find the his lover or wife

Their love brought a sharp pain like the cut of a knife

Awoke to your perfume on the pillow next to mine

It lingered for a second like it had for some time

I knew though it was just the residue of you and me

So I said to myself “Let it be, let it be”