You Have Always Been with Me- and You’re Still Here…

 

You were in hospice when I talked to you,

and you said, “Please let me just rumble, now.”

You went on to tell me things that I knew,

and other things the made me mutter, Wow!

 

You said I was meant to be your friend,

and how much I had helped you through the years.

But these were things I meant to say to him-

those times I’d call him on the verge of tears.

 

Up to the end you were a call away

with just the right things that I had to hear.

You’re still my mentor and you make my day,

helping with my load, and easing my fear.

 

I will not shed a tear for Chuck’s going.

I feel his warmth in me, and it growing.