A SEAT IN THE SHADE

A SEAT IN THE SHADE

I long to sit beside you

On a bench in quiet shade

To listen to your voice

Tell about the life you've made.

I long to laugh and weep with you

About your journey's road

To listen as you relate

How heavy has been your load.

I long to feel you close to me

And to sense your joy for life

To share your determination

To put an end to strife.

I ache to see your smiling eyes

Of deep and tender blue

I long to tell you face to face

How much that I love you.

I have an aching in my heart

To tell you face to face

How glad I am that you're alive

That you received the gift of grace.

I long to feel the gentle breeze

That wafts from up above

I long to offer up my thanks

For life, for friends and love.

In imagination I wander

Through conversations deep

I hear the laughter and the fun

And I see us weep.

I hear us talk of life and love

Of pain and getting through,

I hear the hope that lives in us

And the things we want to do.

I see us sit in possibility

With much to share and learn

I feel the hope that lives with us

For the lovely life we yearn.

Until the day we can sit and share

Letters will have to do

They keep us close in heart and thought

And hold the words "I love you."

© Linda J. Vaughan

15th. April 2012