I End My Letters, "Thoughts, Prayers, and Heart"

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I end my letters, "Thoughts, prayers, and heart" Because that's where I keep you now you're gone These long and bitter years I've been alone. I have neither the aptitude nor art To tell you how it feels to be apart From you, where passion turns to stone, And all I do is hunger for my home Across a sea too changeable to chart. Please remember always that I love you Though time and distance try to intervene, And I can hold you only from afar. I find I can endure my life without you By treasuring what grace cannot be seen: The silent wonder simply that you are. Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.