after those sad times
coming to see you there in the hospitals
lying thin frail
knowing it was but time
days or weeks
& now its ten years gone
I guess I found my way back to you
some way for us to forgive the past
though I could never get you
as you understand me
different times between us
too much time across the years
I was determined to live without fear
even if that meant saying goodbye
& those others you left behind
their hands remain closed
its fists not fun for these
& it is too long to be living in hope
for sleeping people to wake