The heartache of losing your soul mate of a lifetime
I Sit Alone and Cry
(Recitation by Richard Lee Orey)
(O, yesterday the moment came
I feared so many years
Our time as one has run its course
My heart now filled with tears)
We were barely in our teens
When your love came dancing in
With your warm and gentle smile
And your silly little grin
Your tender love changed everything
Bringing me your light
I watched you every moment of the day
And dreamed of you all night
But now my heart is broken
Your last breath a simple sigh
While life goes on around me
And I sit alone and cry
There never was another like you
In sharing a sensitive touch
And maybe I adored you And loved you far too much
I wanted only to catch your tears
With an understanding heart
I never thought there’d come a time
When we might ever part
But now my heart is broken Your last breath a simple sigh While life goes on around me And I sit alone and cry
But only tender souls may touch
In magic born of heart
And know God’s time will come for us
When we’ll never ever part
For God’s hand gave us harmony
And hope in Evermore
While your dying whisper promised me
I’ll wait at Heaven’s door
But now my heart is broken Your last breath a simple sigh While life goes on around me And I sit alone and cry
While life goes on around me And I sit alone and cry
Richard Lee Orey
Copyright 2010
(Music: Shadows/Ottmar Liebert)
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
“I Sit Alone and Cry” was written from the perspective of being 77 years old and married to the same woman for 58 years,
the same woman that has been my friend and lover since we were each only 14 years old.In time, we grew up together
and shared having children, grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Few if any readers can possibly understand emotionally the extraordinary closeness and connection with another person
that develops over such a long lifetime of sharing intimacies and the vicissitudes of life, even while many of you perhaps
have parents whose lives somewhat mirror this experience.Truly, I believe it is a human relationship that requires one to
have “lived it” to appreciate the dramatic life-melding dynamics of such a relationship.
To set the record straight, we are still two living people.But our daily life cannot avoid the fact that in the somewhat near
future, one of us will surely know the pain of such earthly separation.And let me confess that I had to record my recitation
three times before I was able to finish the reading without openly crying.
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