"A Reason To Live"

A Reason To Live.


"For a reason to live,
the question why
to lie upon a pillow
staring into the darkness?"

"Where are you Lord
leaving me all alone,
my children praying,
confused to help me?"

“Mommy don’t you cry.
We will dry your eyes
when daddy phones.
He promised he would.

You were in the fields
picking wild flowers,
white and yellow
for a dainty bouquet,

pinned on your dress
in a little red bow.
Don’t you remember?
It was raining that day."

"Mom, you’re so pale
what did we say
that has upset you so,
shall we call the doctor?”

"No my darling children,
Dad met another lady.
Why I do not know,
we were a happy family."

"Perhaps I’m getting old
my hair is slightly grey,
will you color it blond
and send dad a photo,

it may remind him of me
when we were courting.
He proposed that day
with a bouquet of flowers,

there on his knee."
"Maggie, marry me,
my promise to you
till the day I die."