I wish that I could be with you
And hold you in my arms,
Whisper all my love to you
And kiss away your tears. I wish that I could take your cares
And put them all away,
Neatly folded into drawers
While pleasure lights your smile. I wish that joy could step inside
Your heart and stay awhile,
And all the rain could turn into
A rainbow in the sun. And all our loneliness like mist
Could fade into the blue,
A memory of sad, hard times
That happened long ago. But I cannot come home right now,
And you cannot come here;
And so our dreams must be the fields
On which we laugh and play. If life cannot be what we want,
It will, it will be so;
For love can turn the harshest light
To gold through sheer affection. Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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