Poems From Inside Me

As We Grow and Change Poetry

Alone

Look at that old couple

Forty years together

So much like each other

Much more than a sister or a brother

How will one of them go on

When their mate is gone

When their brightest stars have shone

And death keeps calling on and on

Alone

It seems that I am just a son

And my courting years are done

I would not have told you or anyone

I traded happiness to play and run

I once had my perfect chance

To ask the perfect girl to dance

She stole my heart with just a glance

But my thoughts were far away

Alone

So many words to say

To our folks before they pass away

I don't look forward to that day

I need my Dad now more than ever

Though he soon will rest forever

And both my parents will be together

The ties that bind us will be severed

I would not be so alone

If I had a love to call my own

Talk for hours on the phone

Find a way to share a home

Alone

I had to let go of my mom

Years of happiness all done

Gone to be with the only one

Who is God's true only son

I hope that my parents one day find their rest

In a place totally blessed

And forget that my presence made a mess

Of their lovely little nest

Forget all of what I said

Except to pray for all the dead

And those they leave behind

Who can't break the ties that bind

Alone

One heart stops beating in the night

Another won't give up the fight

Though things just don't seem right

And no one cares about their plight

Soon the one left on earth a short while longer

No longer thinks they are the stronger

And they want to join their lover

For talk and love and laughter

Alone

Talk and love and laughter

In the place that will be ever after

Peace, contentment and their loved one

Sick of living, life here is done

It must be horrid to keep living

In a world with no more happiness to keep bringing

To make a tired old senior keep on giving

Left to shuffle on all for nothing

And so most of them just stop trying

It is so sad to see a person dying

But look at what was taken

Everything if I'm not mistaken

June 2, 2014

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