Yes, you're gone but not forgotten, the memories still cling! <br />Yes, I know that death must happen yet I'm still wondering! <br />I have ten thousand anecdotes that only we have shared... <br />Enough to stir ten thousand notes, enough to prove I cared... <br />And yet I care more now than then, the grief consumes me still... <br />Your passing is beyond my ken... In fact, it's made me ill... <br />I hear your voice within the house, yes, even though you've gone! <br />Although I'm silent as a mouse, your voice won't carry on! <br />You speak my name, a moment's grace, a gift from God I think... <br />I look around to see your face... my timing out of sync... <br />I know you've gone! Your ghost abides! Your spirit dwells in dreams! <br />Sometimes my spirit coincides as if we're joining streams... <br />It's then that I fear for my mind... They say time heals our hearts... <br />I pray God's healing I will find and that a new life starts... <br />Perhaps I'm meant to love again! If so, then bless me now... <br />In truth, I don't know where or when! What will the Lord allow? <br />Yet if I stay a single soul, and marriage isn't mine... <br />Down Memory Lane I'm proud to stroll to seek the Valentine <br />Who stole my very heart away a long, long time ago... <br />Though gone still loved this very day... As if you didn't know...<br /><br />Denis Martindale<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gone-but-not-forgotten-4/
