LOVING YOU

When I woke up this morning and I saw you lying there

with the sunlight through the curtains shining in your hair.

I looked at you lovingly, while you lay asleep

and leaned over to kiss you, gently on your cheek.

We sat together at the breakfast table, with talk of the day ahead

as always you had something to say, to help me clear my head.

The phone rang, one of the children, needing you again

and you patiently talked and listened to her, taking away her pain.

When I came home in the evening, at the end of a busy day

you were there at the door to meet me, in your usual way.

I’d never seen you more beautiful, in the clothes you wear

and I held you close to kiss you, while my hand ran through your hair.

Now as I lay beside you, as you sleep, in the dark of the night

I think how you always bring to my life, so much love and light.

Without your love I would be, like a candle without a flame

and for the close ones, who share our love, it would be the same.