Our
Journeys Path
From
you, I learned that love at first sight can be a true love
The
first time I held you in my arms we were forever bound
You laid
your head to my breast and knew that you were home
I knew I’d
found an unreserved love, a forever love
We grew and matured
together in so many different ways
Even when our wills did differ
we never turned away
Neither took more than they gave in this
affair of hearts
All you ever wanted was to just love me, and have
me love you
So many paths we shared, so many adventures we
had
Each and every new place we explored, we learned to love
together
Each other off searching what we each needed ourselves to
find
Even though roaming apart, we were always walking side by
side
Others were not welcomed as we wound are way along
You
and me, we both knew, those times were for us and us alone
Woods
and streams and creatures wild, the only things allowed
Only they
allowed to revel in how we shared their gifts
Time did what
time does, slowed your steps, stole your strength
I had to keep
going, find new places to explore alone
You were always there with
me, in my eyes, my heart, my soul
Standing together with, against,
anything nature gave
I prayed that there would be one decision
I would never have to make
Prayed that God would spare me this,
take you gently in your sleep
We both knew hanging on would have
only hurt us more
Letting you go was so very hard, neither of us
ever saw the end
I know you will for ever travel paths close
at hand with me
I owe it to us to carry on and find new places
that we’d love
The places discovered I know you will look
down and share
No place will never be so glorious, until we’ve
met again
I went down to stand upon "our" Bluffs
this night, look upon "our" lake
As promised in the
heart, there was one thing left for you from me
Yes I cried, as
any hurting soul would have to do
I’ve never been so alone
and lonely, standing there, missing you
G.R. Hambley 05/99
©
NOTES:
I
had to write "Our Journeys Path" while he was
still with me. I feared I would not be able to write it when he
left.
During spring it became very apparent that Clarence and
I would not have much time left together on our journey. In honesty
it came down to a couple hours, the decision had been made. He and I
went down to the Bluffs in what I truly believed would be our last
time there together. When we got down to the Bluffs a most amazing
change took place in Clarence. It was as if he knew time was short
and decided we would have one last summer in the sun. As you saw in
"Journeys End" We almost made it.
Journeys
End
for
Clarence on the day he went a reprise to "Our Journey's
Path"
Where does one begin but at the very end
The
credits roll, the curtain closes, the music fades away
Last scene
played out with its own delicious irony
You did not go
easily, fought against the road onto your next path
Brought to
mind, words of tellers better than myself
Such desire to not leave
this stage, to continue on in life
Held you close so that you
would know love until the end
I lay my head on yours, that I may
hear your last breath
When you left, you knew, you took away a
piece of me for you
What goes with you, guides you through, is
an endless love
You did go true, to not only you, but to me as
well
I swear, I shall show the same when my own time draws
near
Heaven has the loan of you, but only for a time
In
return, those above will watch over you for me
Upon my time, we
will be rejoined, to walk our path again
G.R.
Hambley
August 16, 1999 ©