A lifelong friend I did not seek
When hid among chaff I found you
Brightly upon my heart you shone
A light within the life I had
Happiness unto me you give
Standing behind me and in front
As the situation does call
Without your support I am void
The love I feel, the love you give
Without condition, without strings
I just want you to know truly
You…you are my wonder woman
Will you to me today talk
Or still will you silent be?
Within your darkness hiding
In places your hurt unseen
Solace seeking your heart does
Elusively a perch find
The darkest hole, a dim path
From the pain you insulates
Upward, yearning does your soul
Seems a path without ending
To find the hope you desire
Pain and misery to stop
Informed were we that she had passed
Her life marked by vitality
Reminders things don’t always last
But some gain immortality
With care she wrought a simple life
And with her love she showed her strength
As a friend, a mother and wife
These qualities were shown at length
With a caring man her life spent
For nothing ever did she want
Nor anything did she lament
For their love they did not flaunt
With patience two women were raised
With a dose of motherly love
With aplomb she went unfazed
As her strength she gained from above
Eyes of fire and a loving smile
Helping others to find success
Defined is this woman worthwhile
Sharing amongst them her noblesse
In her beliefs held she steadfast
As the end drew steadily near
Fearless into the night she passed
Comforted by those she held dear
What else can be said of this soul
That her long life did not display
With heartfelt thanks and love made whole
Privileged were we to know Kay
Halfheartedly I stumble through
A sympathetic soul to find
The void that you have left to fill
Emptiness within me does grow
Unstable rumblings fill my gut
Whenever your thoughts turn to me
Butterflies within me churning
As your voice my ears are hearing
Underneath thoughts that are laid bare
Throughout my life I’m missing you
Forgotten moments, forgotten joy
This second, this minute recurring
It’s not the same without you here
Without your witty demeanor
To wipe away the days weary
To buoy my tiresome façade
Back to me will one day you come?
Does this hope lead not to despair?
All I can do and all I pray
Is that one day you will be there
With hope I call you, answer you do not
Asleep you must be, wrapped within torrid dreams
Comforted and appalled, mind contradicted
Climbing slowly up, barely making way
Consciousness too, in spite, eludes you
Another day of wasted relief
Relief of the burdens of normal life
Decisions on the back burner are left
For another day, for another time, left bare
Consequences one way or another come
For those decisions dropped and likewise made
Delay indefinite holds upon you
For now, rest you within comforting dreams
Your life by your imagination bound
Frozen underneath fears paralyzing
In your short respite your mind takes solace
My love a small thing is not
Rather more a river it is
Briskly flowing unto my heart
Welling mightily from there out
For you, work I the little things
For the bigger ones mean much less
My want: more time with you to spend
My need: more love to you to give
As a heartfelt note this verse take
Inside your bosom to cherish
The promises herein hiding
Until time comes them to let show
Under guise of nothingness
Walks a woman incomplete
In pieces, broken is she
In the darkness, her mind
Treading paths unseen
Lives emotional turmoil
In many facets existing
Under cover of night
Controlling, struggling
Unendingly floundering
Plotting to destroy
That vessel they created
Resistance, her muses twisted
Bewilderment abounds
Astonishment, hatred
Unbound fury unleashed
Against their bonds straining
One by one her voices subside
Upon her soft tortured soul
A stark calmness comes to rest
Respite from a strained affair
Her mind heals its tattered shreds
In its inner reaches lurks
A shadow hidden unseen
Begins again the cycle
Of the woman incomplete
We sit in this bed
Sometimes together, sometimes alone
Talking, laughing, sleeping, loving
Leaving each other for awhile
Sometimes hard, sometimes good
We make this work, we make it great
Just want you to know
There’s no place or one with whom I’d rather be
Beside you I lie
Listening
Watching
Slowly your chest rises
I hear you breathe
Softly exhaling
Inhaling
Your beauty
I gaze upon
Lovely
Inviting
Your lips pursed
I move forward to kiss
To feel
To savor
Feeling love
I pull you close
Hearts
Beating
Interwined
We stay
Locked together
Alive
I search my mind for answers
To the questions of my life
Finding in truth no solace
As this road winds ever on
Thoughts upon me heavily weigh
Hefty in their repose
A burdensome responsibility
That lies upon my heart
If ever comes a rejoinder
To my plaintive queries
I hope and plan and pray
That the answers lie in you