I Miss You,Love

From time to time, personal grief gets the better of me ; and, by way of distraction, I'll try to teach myself to play an old song on a new instrument. While hacking my way through "Danny Boy" , it occurred to me different words could be put to that fine old tune...

I Miss You Love

(Tune : Londonderry Air / Danny Boy)

1.

I miss you , Love:

Sometimes in early morning

I stop and touch

Your empty rocking chair –

I know you’re gone

But sometimes I forget,dear,

And my heart aches

Because you are not there.

2.

Your shy sweet smile

Still calls me to your side, Love

As it once did

So many years ago –

And in my dreams

It sparkles like an ember

To warm me with

Its golden afterglow.

3.

I thank you, Lord

For all the years You gave us ;

She’s in Your hands :

I know it had to be –

Ease Thou my pain

And help me be deserving -

Until rejoined

We share eternity.

Chorus

So many years

We walked through life together:

The smiles, the tears,

The sunshine and the rain-

Had I but known

Someday you’d have to leave me

I tell you, Love :

I’d do it all again !