times darkness

Thinking of you, there seems to be a cloud covering the morning’s sun
Missing you, there seems to be a hole somewhere in my living heart
Wanting near you, and I can find no way to bridge what life has done
Everywhere seeing you, and having to wait for life’s ungentle restart.

These are things that run through my mind of a morning’s new beginning
Knowing the life we could have had, the joy you brought my everyday life
I take my evenings walk and remember your scent, your sight, your feeling
I examine every way this happening, knowing each day’s loss is rife

Sadness abounds, then I hear your marvelous voice and pretend it is for me
Darkness abates, if even for a little while as I bask in imagined return to your desire
Where I can believe for a moments breath that I am where I most long to be
That happiness and love have returned to me that I thought so long expire’d

It is for these tender precious moments that I find my hope alive and ready
The times I think all is lost and no more joy to be found in life’s tragic wreck
Hopes surprising joy ignites my cooling heart and brings forth ablazing steady
The memories of my life, and those moments we share before times demanding beck