Remembering Memories

Just a while ago he went away,

said he would come back again.

My fiancée, I loved him so;

I begged him not to leave and go.

Filthy foe, with gun and machine!

bombs that bring a chilling scream –

Trucks soon led him far away,

I could do nothing but wait and pray.

Yet the years went by and passed,

then finally – at last –

Our soldiers came home, scraped and hurt,

lined with scars of muddy dirt.

From explosions some lost a limb;

still, there was no sign of him…

Stepped onto a field and ran for cover,

leapt, but fell, to save another.

I cried, for now I was alone,

I wept, for now I had no one,

I screamed at God and asked him how

He could take him away – right here, right now?

They told me to swallow my tears,

said there was no room for fears.

I stayed strong and remembered his face

that was looking down from a heavenly place…

Walks in the wind carry his voice to me;

he tells me that if ever the need be:

God will summon his angels – On the cheek shall I be kissed –

and that he loves me, and he knows he is missed.