I NOW DIE

To see you go
My heart bleeds

All those moments spent
Why didn't I care more

With you, I believed
Life was easy, a loving place

Without you, I now see
Life is harsh, a strange place

Death, is nothing, I say
Compared to emptiness of you

How do I go on
How do I live

I now die
With thoughts of you...

I now die
With thoughts of you...

Author

3-1-98

DAD

Tonight I hear a sound
In the faint distance and
Last night, too, with my moon
Befriending this ghost of a soul

A train passes idly by, leaving
Only the wind to blow through my hair
Away, whispering soft secrets
From you, for only my ears to catch

I feel this old soul
Escaping somewhere into the future
Or was it somewhere in the past
I hear her sobbing her usual tears

Daddy, daddy, please come back
Home and live with me
Let me see your stranger's face
The one that never ages

Love me, I think I am worth
Loving, please shout it out
So I can believe you for good
This time, oh Dad, I miss you too much

J.C. 7/26/96

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