The Loss of You
What am I feeling today?
I feel like a cracked vessel
Leaking out all my sorrow
I so miss you my love
I ponder on the days you were near
Even in the next room
Just knowing your closeness
Held my world together
Even though
Often you just lay there sleeping
Wasting away
My heart rested in the knowledge
I could touch you
Care for you
Have you need me
I knew also
deep deep down
Hidden from view
That maybe
I would soon lose you
But it was a far away dark hill
That I chose not to see
I chose only to see the sunny days
And not the sorrows of
Lonely nights and gray days
Because our love was immortal
Yes your love lives on in me
But how hard it is
Not to be able to reach out
To clasp your strong hands
To wrap my fingers in yours
To entwine myself like a vine
Around your tender heart
To share our words
To receive the look
That flowed with love from your eyes
For me
I was filled like a cup that overflows
I cherish these memories
We shared so much
In all our years together
Raising families
Through the joys and pains
We often shared
In our growing together
But what love it forged in us
To endure- to overcome
To face the challenges as one
We were steadfast
But now like a tree turns
Into a fence post
A plank into a house
Or ultimately
Into a cross
I come now and lay my burdens down
At the cross- ever so grateful
Because you shall rise in newness of life
In the twinkling of an eye
We, together, will rise
Mortality
Will be caught up into
Immortality
Because of Love-
Such a great Love-
Love that overcame death for you and I
Copyright- Brenda V Northeast 29th March 2011
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