Just One More Day

I stare outside the window

I see nothing but the black of night

The darkness reflecting my grief

I’m tired; I want to give up the fight

I hear the mighty wind howling

Calling names of lost souls like me

I see the beacon of light from afar

I dream of home, one I have yet to see

Gone is the one I cared about

To most cast forever in oblivion

My bones are weary, the toil endless

Just one more day, myself I promised

In the dead of night nostalgia sets in

Remembering the feeling of belonging

When laughter rang through corridors

And voices sweet with yearning

I gaze down at a torn-up photograph

“I’ll always be there” it said on the bottom

The memory so far away it seemed

Though it kept me going time and again

I remember the warmth of his hand

The depth of his love through his eyes

The smile revealing lines of age

Hiding the pain he always carried

There’s no pain alike separation

When your hearts are bound to be one

You hold on to that vestige of hope

That someday you’ll find your way home

On my journey I went near and far

Searching for that end of the rainbow

Realizing in the very end at last

I had what I wanted right from the start

I sang joyous songs of celebration

“My love” I wrote, “I’m coming back”

“He’s been gone a year” wrote his mother

“He died in his sleep with a broken heart”

Now my days are spent remembering

My long journey just about ending

My aching heart brimming with sorrow

But grateful that true love I came to know

The sunrise brings no promise

The sunset brings no peace

The world devoid of meaning

And living is merely existing

Just one more day, myself I promised

Somewhere out there awaits

A world with no pain, no grief

And that familiar smile forgives

Idg

May 17, 2010

2300 RSD #2019