I should have known I'd cry this way. <br />I just forgot somehow. <br />Although I shed them years ago, <br />The last ones fell just now. <br /> <br />I held your picture in my hand <br />And teardrops fell like rain. <br />I saw that twinkle in your eyes <br />And was a child again. <br /> <br />My love, your gift is one fine thing <br />That makes it all worthwhile. <br />The wait of more than forty years <br />To see your childhood smile. <br /> <br />I tried for years to just recall <br />The way you used to be. <br />Then when I saw your photograph, <br />It all returned to me. <br /> <br />The flaming love that I once felt, <br />Was just as it had been. <br />Delivered with your precious gift <br />Of how you looked back then. <br /> <br />There's nothing more for me to do; <br />But sit, and stare, and cry. <br />I'm much too old to do much else <br />Before my time to die. <br /> <br />There's nothing more for me to say, <br />I've told it all to you. <br />My love, you are the one affair <br />I've had my whole life through. <br /> <br />I guess it takes a little time, <br />Just more than forty years. <br />I know I cut it long ago; <br />My, long, long trail of tears.<br /><br />GREENWOLFE 1962<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-long-long-trail-of-tears/
