Sitting here, thinking of you, as if it were yesterday Hold you tightly in my arms I gently kiss your face Could you feel my touch in the darkness as you headed for the light? Could you hear my gentle whispers of hope and joy and pain? You never said a word yet I got you just the same Knew the moment I saw you that the pleasure’d be worth the pain You stirred the boy inside of me, I knew I couldn’t run Just wish I had the power to make you well and make you stay The closer I held you to me, the quicker you slipped away Yet you had some things to teach me before that final day ‘bout life, love and tenderness, gettin’ back more than you give And finding strength and love amid the helplessness. While falling leaves turned burnished shades, so came your time to go, A feisty little spirit you lit the sky above, Red rose among a sea of white to show you how I felt, Can’t have one without the other is the deal, the pleasure and the pain Time passes by so quickly and none so fast as then, No sooner did you come than you went away again, With something more than words you showed me little man, The path that led to discovering the father within me!
