Your promises of love,
I kept close to my heart.
They gave me strength,
Each day we were apart.
When the loneliness threatened,
Your words shone through.
Brightening up my day,
With images of you.
Our love was so beautiful,
So intense, so strong.
But with the distance between us,
Things started to go wrong.
We needed each other,
As the earth needs the rain.
But we couldn’t be together,
And our happiness turned to pain.
The weeks turned into months
And the months turned into years.
The promises turned into doubts,
And our hopes turned into fears.
With continents between us.
We began to drift apart.
Our love never quite dying,
Just not as reachable in our hearts.
And then the waiting was over.
And we were together at last.
And all our fears and our doubts.
Became shadowed in the past.
Now the future awaits us.
Precious darling of mine.
Together, forever.
Till the end of all time
©Susan Cummins 1/4/2001
