To My Beloved

My Dear.... Do you know? How empty is our home, when you are gone? Another evening fades, another day declines How silent are these walls, when you're away Even in the quiet, I feel the comfort of your presence The mantel clock is ticking, with face that seems to mock me... I watch the embers glow...., each room that seems to know... The ticking sound the only song, until your arms embrace me Do you know,.... how I miss you so?.... The night is cold It seems to freeze the words I cannot find I look beyond the window glass.... My eyes beseech the moon Perhaps the moon will search the stars for words beyond my reach I sit alone, the night is dark A lifeless pen in hand Where are the words I seek? Where do I start? How can the phrase begin? How does one express the joy....the peace inside one's heart? While I stumble, my foolish hesitation over choice I have no voice... No words.....the breath of me Cannot find the verse The rhythm could be no worse... To make these words come out just right Or have you always known? Our love so pure, so sweetly grown On summer days, or winter nights No other arms could be so warm, so gentle, the place I call my own Though I am alone, your gentleness will carry me to sleep tonight As it has on every night How I long to only have you home again.... Where does one find the way? A way to say the sacred words.... So the whole world could know.... How I love you so? Come home, my love, come home.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Audrey's Sentimental Love Letter