PARADISE FOUND


DID THE MOON SHINE ON THAT PARIS NIGHT
WHEN THEIR DREAM WAS BEING BORN
DID THE HAND OF GOD EMBRACED THEM
ON AUGUSTS EARLY DAWN

DID HE LEAD THEM THROUGH TO PARADISE
LAY SOFT PETALS ROUND THEIR HEADS
TO SHARE TOMORROW AND FOREVER
IN LOVES TIMELESS WEB

THOUGH WE WOULD GIVE ANYTHING
TO HAVE KEPT THEM BY OUR SIDES
WE FEEL PRIVELIDGED AND HUMBLED
TO HAVE BEEN PART OF THEIR YOUNG LIVES

WE SMELL HER FRAGRANCE ALL AROUND US
WE HEAR HIS VOICE ON THE EVENING BREEZE
IN THE FACES OF OUR CHILDREN
WE SEE LOVE AND IT BRINGS US PEACE

NOW THEIR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN GODS BOOK OF GOLD
BY ANGELS USING GOSSOMER AND LACE,
LIKE THREADS OF A GIANT TAPESTRY OF LIFE
THEY ARE WOVEN INTO PLACE

THERE,S A CORNER CARVED DEEP WITHIN OUR HEARTS
WHERE WE FIND SOME INNER STRENGTH
THERE ,MEMORIES AND LOVE SURROUND US
UNTIL ONE DAY WE MEET AGAIN

NOT A DAY PASSES BY WHEN WE DON,T THINK OF YOU
LOVING MOMENTS,WHICH AREN,T ALWAYS SAD
MOMENTS OF LAUGHTER,THEN MAYBE A TEAR
FOR THE LOST YEARS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE HAD

LIKE THE LONG LONG ROADS WINDING OVER THE MOOR
LIKE THE ENDLESS PATTER OF RAIN
LIKE THE SEA CRASHING DOWN ONTO BARRIER REEFS
OUR LOVE FOR YOU NEVER WILL WAIN

THERE ARE DARK DAYS AND BRIGHT DAYS
AND SOMETIMES JUST GREY
THINKING HOW YOU WERE OURS FOR A WHILE
THEN WE THINK OF THE ONES
WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN LOVE
AND WE LOOK AT YOUR PICTURE AND SMILE…

By Sheila Broadhead Betts.


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