REMEMBERING YOU

REMEMBERING YOU 

Today I have been thinking

On this cold grey winter day,

I have a strong memory of you

Which will not go away.

It was a crisp and cold autumn morning

You took me to the train,

We parted with smiles and laughter ~

I never saw you again

At the Station Café we had hot chocolate,

You bought me a magazine.

So much has happened since that day

So much that might have been.

You ran beside the steam train

As it started upon its way.

I can still see the mist of that morning

I still remember the day.

You called out to me to enjoy myself

As I continued on my way,

You told me you would be home soon

I looked the other way.

You looked so well and healthy ~

How much our looks can deceive

I wanted so hard to accept it all

I wanted to believe.

You never came home at all ~

A phone call told me you were gone,

That my life was changed forever

And that I must carry on.

You took another journey

Your anguish and pain now done.

I said Goodbye at the Funeral Home

And carried on alone.

The family were all there to support me

And I felt their dreadful pain.

The mist began to gather ~

Cold winds and showers of rain.

The months moved on

And nos it's been ten years,

I wept so very often ~

Such salty bitter/sweet tears.

I only wept – I never let go ~

No bitter tears I shed

I held close to the memory

My thoughts within my head.

Your time had come, it was right for you

Your agony now spent.

I missed you then and I miss you now

I remember the day you went.

No time to say Goodbye ~

We were talking on the phone.

Such deep and dreadful silence

And you were taken Home.

I had promised to be there to the end

And to show you that I cared.

It seems quite right and it comforts me

That mine was the last voice you heard.

© Linda J. Vaughan


10 years 12th. July