Precious Memories of Yesterday
I often try to open that magic door
Wishing and hoping for evermore
To find you waiting in the shade of our favourite tree
Where we would often rest, just you and me
Is it so long ago since you went away
To me it seems only yesterday
Friends tell me that life goes on and time will heal
I smile and pretend that’s exactly how I feel
I still see you waving as our troop ship slowly sailed away
Your comforting letters I read by night and day
Constant thoughts of you despite dangers, heat or drenching rain
The reassuring sweet embrace when I returned home again
Where ever I go, you are always there
Smiling, laughing, holding my hand, no matter where
At night I still reach out and call your name
Yet always the unwanted smothering silence, again and again
I seek you everywhere but only fleeting blurred images appear
There are times when the dark loneliness creeps so very near
Yet always I gather strength when I believe you are close by
It is then, my beautiful one, I ask the question “why?”
Although I grieve and long to be with you, here or there
There is always the comfort of the deepest love we did share
The sweetest memories of hand in hand, facing life together
It will suffice until that door opens and I’m with you again, forever
George Mansford © March 2017
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