Chimayo - Fernando Ortega

I have seen the golden summer light

Flicker in the trees

In the orchard where the long grass

Sways in the breeze

In the shade across the fence

An old man in a chair

Dreams of the names and faces

Who’ve been there

But lately I have seen you fading

As the world is changing

As the seasons fly

Still my heart in secret

Holds on to the deepest colors

Of the earth and sky

In the graying of the year

When leaves and sunlight fall

Make the shadows of the orchard

Deep and tall

Then the winter comes and covers

All that does not move

Underneath the Sangre Cristo

Stars and moon

But I will come and find you

When the spring unbinds you

Singing of an older time

Still my heart in secret

Holding to the deepest colors

Of the earth and sky