Walk In The Garden

Let's take a walk together
You and I
It's getting dark
and cold

Let's take a long walk
talk over all the things
we've forgotten
things better left unsaid

Let's go for one last walk
try to find all
the people we lost
on earlier walks
those still missing and missed

Quickly now, let's walk on
the light is growing dim
we're almost there
and still so much left
to say

Our walk is over now
we're at the garden's gate
and I feel you slipping
away, in a hurry to get
there

One last hug and
good-bye, rushed
as always never
enough time it
feels as though
we've just gotten
started but
it's time for you
to go

Run and join the dance
say hello to everyone
for me, give them my love,
tell them I'll see them soon

I have to walk back now
without you
without them
alone and cold.


***In Memory of my grandfather, Orvall M. French.***