Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

You were once my one companion…
You were all that mattered…
You were once a friend and father –
Then my world was shattered…

Wishing you were somehow here again…
Wishing you were somehow near …
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed,
Somehow you would be here…

Wishing I could hear your voice again…
Knowing that I never would…
Dreaming of you won’t help me to do
All that you dreamed I could…

Passing bells and sculpted angels,
Cold and monumental, seem, for you,
The wrong companions – you were warm and gentle . . .
Too many years fighting back tears . . .

Why can’t the past just die . . .?
Wishing you were somehow here again . . .
Knowing we must say goodbye . . .
Try to forgive… Teach me to live . . .

Give me the strength to try . . .
No more memories, no more silent tears . . .
No more gazing across the wasted years . . .
Help me say goodbye.