Memory Garden

The roads of life are sweeter, shared

Let us steal away together, if we dare

On paths of wonder, and winds of change

Timeless moments of life unchained.

Each day a road with paths for two  

We’ll make a memory garden, me and you.

We’ll sleep in rose meadows, wild and deep

Until away the night time shadows creep. 

Should you go first and I remain

I’ll love you always, just the same.

There is one thing I’d have you do

Walk slow, until I catch up with you.

Until that spring when flowers bloom

With birds that sing their happy tune

I’ll carry on in our memory garden

And perhaps I’ll catch a glimpse of you.

I’ll hear your voice, I’ll see your smile

And stop and think of you awhile.

Then walk the paths we walked together

Through fields of gold that last forever.

There’s one more thing if God will allow

Leave your footsteps for me to follow

So that, one day down that eternal lane

You’ll hear me when I call your name.

by C. S. Craig,  August 15, 2017

In memory of my Mother – Edna Jeanette (Hickman) Craig – October 10, 1921 – August 15, 1995.