gone but not forgotten

I don’t know why you went away
On that longest night in May
But sometimes I think the reason
Was so we’d learn to live another way 

What you took with you was hard to fill
And what you left over flowed
When I think of what you went through
Working your fingers to the bone 

You’re gone but not forgotten
We are alone but still answer to
You hear everything we say
We live because of you
You showed us the way
We feel you in everything we do 

So many things have happened here
I’m sure you know every detail
I like to think you’ve played your part
In shaping one or two tales 

I’m sorry she’ll never know you
I think you would like her ways
I know you always worried that I
Would find love one day 

Chorus 

I will remember you
When I need too
And I will call you
When I feel the need to 

Now he has gone astray
Blind to what he has made
I’m sure if you were here
You’d find him another shape
So stubborn like a mule
Why can’t he see he’s playing a fool
I just hope he finds something you left
To reconcile his truth

 Chorus

Written: 2002
Copyright Nicholas Treadwel1 2003