DIGGER

Many years ago I lost you
Gone forever, in a flash
We were playing Russian Roulette,
yet you were the one to crash
Your life, you lost
and what a price to pay
My innocence, my cost
and with that I lost my way

Unforgiven naturally,
for endless years
Oceans of sadness
with rivers of tears
Regrets by the dozen,
too many to count
Words would stir memories,
just with their sound

But the one thing I forgot
while I dwelled in this place
was the true kindness
that had always shown in your face
That you would be forgiving,
because it could have been me
And that this was simply
how life had turned out to be

And when I asked you this once
while I dreamt in a strange land:
To come back with me, please,
by holding on to my hand
You explained it so softly
and with so much care
that that time was over
You no longer were there

To understand that we had been lucky
To have had our time together
and too little of it for sure
but full of love and standing forever
So I hope, again, one day we'll meet
but if that is not to be
Then I just want to thank you, my dearest love
For all that you were, and still are, to me.