Please Come Home

September 7, 2019

Watching you leave, is a feeling of such intense pain.

Like a dagger, stabbing, forming garden of tears, into the cold dark earth, is where it shall remain.

Knowing I might not ever again, hear your steady breathing within the night,

is why I’ll keep a yellow ribbon tied, around my heart, very, very tight.

Nor shall I might not feel, the beating of your heart against my chest,

until we lay in one another’s arms in a sweet embrace, I will not rest.

Aware of every moment of every day, your life is on the line,

is the same awareness my dreams and future with you, will stand the test of time.

I still look forward to silk ribbons, forever tied with yours,

while wishing when you come home, you never again go off to fight, anymore wars.

Welcoming mornings filled with hope and peace, like that of gazing at the mountains,

hoping the sunrise never fades, like forever flowing love fountains.

These dreams will never be, small pieces of our past.

As I watch you leave, going off to fight, come back safe, is all I ask.

Your last words are still in my mind, “Please don’t wait for me my love, for I cannot bare the pain”,

is a request I can not keep, for my daily prayers include your name.

Watching you leave, stepping on that plane, the story of the night before plays on.

All I can think is your return home, no matter WHICH side has won.

You don’t want to know that I’m waiting on you, with the chance of you leaving this earth,

Please understand, when you received your notice, I had ALREADY started to hurt!

You can not bear me watching you leave, and ME, be in despair?

Just like I, cannot bear YOU, being sent, over there!

You don’t want me to wait, but instead cherish, what we had;

But I WILL wait! Cause I love you; and I need you, so very bad!

You watching me leave to happiness, you say is all that YOU need.

But until you return into my arms, my heart will forever bleed.

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