Faithfully

Faithfully you lay by my side

Everytime I’ve cried

I’ve felt you feeling my depth

And offering compassion patience and tenderness

In a world that is sometimes so short

On these three things

Its enough to make my soul sing

Even as it rises from the depths

Of feeling all I had to bury over years

Tears and frustrations and feelings

That found no sympathy

Amongst human kind

But then I remember too

How my soul led me to someone

Who

Would listen and understand

Everything

Just as you do

And so if there is a meaning

In the words dog and God

Being so interchangeable

Perhaps it is no mystery

That when I feel your loving being close to me

In the late autumnal evenings

That is when I find myself

Closest to heaven