Will you stay?

Will you stay

If I ask you to rest a while here with me

In the silence

Can you bear it to hear

That right now

I need you near

Can I?

As my soul remembers

Before

How hard it was to ask

And surely sometimes being alone

Is the sweetest remedy

For the soul that has known grief

But there are times too

We just long for the touch of a hand

A comforting embrace

Or someone who will help us trace

The tangled threads of loss and longing

As they interweave

That is when

We hope most

For someone to stay a while

Close to us

Dare we ask?

And dare we trust

The answer will be

Yes?