For Angie - Angella Murray

I know how a woman can genuinely love I have known a woman's love And none compared to love you gave For all your life you gave him everything And as you gave there was nothing more For there was only one you to give. How beautiful you laughed then, And I ws happier to call you friend. And all your life you waited for him To give but a fraction frail of what you gave And you said it all to me And I seeing all for myself told him, But he was too popular to believe, and then After he died. We were left suddenly alone I wished I could atone for him But you in silence endured loneliness well For no one in the crowd knew your heart The way you endured the disease of body With stoic grace alone you fell apart You carried the lethal child with Christian dignity You were so young then but long to go. Now it is I Left alone to ponder, why did I not find Love like that in my preference for the polished kind? The love of pleasure is our first blind; You kept truth hidden in the agony of your mind.