Since we bid thee farewell

eight years ago,

many tears that morning did shed.

Into cavernous depths we lowered thee

united to souls art thou wed.

I want you to know
I have lived as well

as best I could I did try.
Nary a morn, noon or night did pass,
couldn’t ever help I but cry.

I felt so bad all those years
When your days of youth deprived
while sickness stole so much our strength
from wells that might have thrived.

Much like you, what did we do

when alone there left to lie ...

Living our lives lest we stray

from faith otherwise worn and tried.

It is hard to explain

these feelings I have

without you, my life to live

Day by day, I can’t but think

My life  for yours I  wouldst give.

Alan D. Busch

February 26, 2008