For Glenn

This is just one of many poems I wrote for Glenn in the interim between 1985 and today but because this one is his favorite (he can quote it word for word, even after all this time) I thought I would share it here.  It isn't anything like the poetry I write today but it was so completely from the heart and expressed so completely how I felt years after we parted.

Sunny days and short hours
Turn to long, empty nights,
Without you by my side,
Nothing feels quite right.

Living my life without you
Will drive me crazy I know
I had you once but lost you
In my world, only memories flow.

You were the beautiful flower
that bloomed and grew in my heart
If I only knew then what I do now,
We would never have fallen apart.

There's so much I should have told you
So much you should have known;
The feelings that were oh, so true,
The love I could have shown.

But, my darling, I lost you,
All of my own free will
But if you ever call me back
I'll come running for you still.

How can I say the right thing
TO tell you how sorry I am
That I didn't mean to hurt you
Or to ever let you down.

Your love to me is most precious,
I hang onto memories few
No matter where tomorrow leads,
I'll always be loving you.

If we ever do meet again
And, once again, our love begins to grow
I'll hang on with all I've got
And never let you go.

Remember our love, remember it well
If our paths never do cross
Because, my darling, if you must know
I am the one that lost!!!

© Ruth Langford, 1989