Time has shown the depth of my love that I have given to you,

To understand time is impossible if unwilling to live it through,

Pain of long separations laced with war created deep loneliness,

What track is taken by time if traveling heart ache’s emptiness,

The broken heart remains at war’s goodbye when it’s time to go,

Traces and fractions are often the same yet how much to say so,

How deep is the pain he ponders in search of his own way to heal,

Remembering the intensity of the pain and surviving by his own will,

Death’s inevitability convinces the pained more time is desirous,

Memories of youthful affairs creates a need to be adventurous,

Photographed memories return his soul to a place from long ago,

Clairvoyance exists between his heart and the one he loves so,

Battered, torn, with blood in slow flow a vaporous vision came,

Texas beautiful through to her soul he knew this beauty by name,

With her in view flowers come to be through concrete and mud,

From nowhere come songbirds and robins the color of blood,

Sunshine and mockingbirds, dewdrops and grass growing too,

Her eyes twinkle of love, her red cheeks compliment her glow,

No doubt she is of heaven, sent to bring reasons of want to live,

And his heart beats hard once more within a willingness to forgive,

With no burden of hate in his heart room for loving her is taken,

A soft whisper is heard “my love, you have not been forsaken,

I love you as you love me, together we shall enter heavens door,

You must and will survive, as you, you are what I’m living for”.

The end. By Pat partial written in 1969

For Patti. I love you my angel, forever in life, forever in death,

Eternity long I will be at your side. Pat