For Hannah

[Jac]

another poem. l wrote in 2017

copyright 2017.

 

The race for love

is just to much

as l see your face before me

your eyes so tender

as it holds my goodbyes

but words of hope

it never dies.

 

ll breathe the night

as journeys fly

so little time, 

the future lied.

lets close the door,

the storms too much

our windows light

no more to touch.

 

So sleep my love

as worlds go by

for darkness came

the day you died.

 

As yearning flowed

on time untouched

in broken dreams

l cried, l cried.

 

So sleep my love

as my world goes by

for the darkness came .

the day you died.

 

The empty space.

holds my goodbyes

but of our love

it never dies.

ll wait in sleep

an ache untold

for the road l took

and a heart foretold.

 

ln sleep l'll wait

till time it calls

for tears from me

no more will fall.

 

We'll sleep my love

as these worlds go by

for darkness came

the day you died,

 

for darkness came

the day you died.

 

 

 

 

 

[Jac]

Hannah was my grandmother who l never met. She was found dead with her 4 day old baby in her arms.

she was just 38 years old

My grandfather was lying dead in the other room, he was 39 yrs old.

The both died of the Spanish flu in 1919.

l have her photograph, she was a beautiful Irish lass.

[RC James]

"too" much.  The refrain is effective