Silently

Silently I carried you in my heart

Quietly I gathered all of these memories

Together

Stringing them like pearls

Across the loom of time

Polishing them with my affection

Reliving the blessings of you

With the gift of attention

Crying at those tines when

The power of our love

Pierced the growing emptiness

Then tenderness would come

Arising as a warmth I sensed

So deep inside my chest

As in the wings I heard your voice

And it was then I remembered

Silently how

You are never ever

That far away

From me