Anna

Alone, I sit in the dark with my sorrows

As I borrow strength from the bottom of a bottle

Here I sit and reminisce of days so long ago

Full of youth and love for my now lost Anna

A great many days we spent, her and I

So lost in love by the nights sandy shores

So deep in love the Angles marveled

“Oh look at the spectacle of thee youth

So full of life and love for each

For her heart is his and his to her and may the grace of Heavens gates bless their vows”

But yet the world set out to destroy our love so rich and pure

For we sought out only to please the other

And the world grew envious of Anna and I

Yet the Angles kept their promise and the grace of Heavens gates was upon us a Anna bore me a daughter

Though we loved each other so, our daughter became our world

And as the bleak December came, Anna fell sick with the hands of death grasping at her throat

The doctors came and said she would die, and the Angles turned their eyes

And as I pleaded they allow her life for mine instead, together they said “Tis a cost lost to fight”

And as the months came and went beside Anna’s bed stayed

For not a day past I was at her bedside, pleading and pleading her life for mine

But sadly so the Angles said enough, and her life they stole leaving me alone

And the only gift from my sweet and dear Anna

Was thus taken some years later

So all alone I sit in the home I built for them

With no candles burning and drapes pulled closed I sat and drank my sorrow away

An old man I turned with no one to love

And my nights I spent on darkened shores by the crypts of my dear Anna and the beautiful girt she’d given me

And the coolness of the nights salty winds thus end my sorrow and reunited at last I see my sweet Anna and the precious girt she bore to me

And together forever we will be C( ich ben ganz allein)