To Wake And Find You Standing There. Poem by Steve Ricketts

Whilst I sit and reflect upon, a life that was but now has gone. I sit and stare the whole day long, wondering where our love has gone. As I watch the breeze that blows, through the trees that you have grown. For when the wind moves through the leaves, it's like I hear you call to me. A voice with tones so soft and sweet, it moves me so, I start to weep. I miss your voice just calling me, for you were my all, my everything.

Where's left now for me go, I've lost my love that's all I know, for you are the very heart of me. I sit and want to talk to you and laugh just like we use to do, I fear those days are now all gone. No more, will I know the smell of you. I think that I would give my all, to see your face smile at me. I know that this can not be, so all I ask is just leave me be, so I can sleep for evermore and wait until I hear you call.

To wake and find you standing there, is all I want, it's all I care. If this my wish can not be, then let me rest and don't bother me. For I would rather stay in sleep, then live my life consumed with grief. This grief of mine does cause me pain, to live within this misery, is something that should never be. So all I ask is leave me be, so I may find my sweet release. Then I'll rest forever more, until the day I'm waiting for.