when the morning birds sing
after the warm rain of spring
may you only hear my voice
to remember all that it once meant

and there in the summer’s breeze
like the breath of Zephyr on your neck
may you only catch my scent
from the beautiful bygone days
now spent…

in the thunder and lightning
that roll across these prairie skies
may you only feel one embrace
and the pounding of my heart
pressed tight against your chest
keeping step and in time
with yours as if some rhyme

look upon the waters of any lake
therein is the bright blue of our skies
let it only be the self-same colour
of my remembered azure eyes
that fills your mind to bursting

i am the shadow cast at sunset
by the blazing end of day
stretching forever before you
into the the unknown future
along an unknown way

i am the soft creaking of a house
restless upon its foundations
through the darker nights
like whispers in sleepless ears
when there are no more lights

i am kiss
i am smile
i am every thing worthwhile
that may come to pass
in the years ahead
i am not the quiet dead
i am forever alive instead.