Let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me learn from you,
Love you,
Bless you before you depart.
Let me not pass you by in a quest of
some rare and perfect tomorrow.
Let me hold you while I may,
For it may not always be so.
One day I shall dig my nails into the earth
Or bury my face in the pillow.
Or raise my hands to the sky and want,
more than all the world your return.
Red Rose Photo from Susie Hemingway’s Collection.
susie, bless you for this beautiful reminder of what I have. I thought I was losing Dan on Christmas morning and he is still with us. I think of you often and feel I have a good friend across the miles. I wish you a blessed, surprising, and comforting New Year. susan
Thanks for the beautiful poem, Susie!
it’s very beautiful and I so appreciate it!
Happy New Year!
May the year bring you peace and joy!
Margie x
Had I read this two years ago it would have meant even more. Thank you, Susie, for a gentle reminder of how important it is to treasure every moment.
This is lovely, Susie. I have often tried to share this message with friends who still have healthy – alive – partners, but so often have felt I wasn’t really heard. Your words speak louder. Bless you, my friend.
“Let me be aware of the treasure you are”…what a beautiful resolution for the new year. Thank you once again for your poignant words, written with such love by a woman who truly loved, and will forever miss, her dear man.
@ Dear Susan – I think of you and Dan often, you are always in my prayers, wishing for you joy and comfort and special blessings at this most difficult time. May the almighty guide and protect you and grant you an easier and more peaceful 2012.
Happy New Year Margie – I hope it’s a fabulous 2012 for you with lots of fun, many joys and good health. Thank you for taking time from your busy days to read here.
Yes a beautiful resolution for the new year Linda, reminding us all to treasure our love ones as John and Dianna(above) knew well and always practised. For they also truly loved and cherished. It is too late to say “I love you” when they are no longer with us.
Peace and blessings for 2012.
Lovely Susie, as always.
Dear Susie — Not long ago I was at a dance and a friend walked in alone. He and I dated for several years and then it ended. But several years later I learned he was ill and I went to him and told him that he was still precious to me, even though he could not feel the same for me. He said, “I think I have loved you from the start, but it’s not about you or my heart…” he went on to share that his early childhood abuse made it impossible from him to trust and thus he could not continue a relationship with me – or anyone, really. We have remained friends since then and when I saw him at the dance, we danced and talked and in the middle of the last dance I could feel him relax and a huge sigh came out. He started to apologize and I said, “No, it’s OK that you are feeling whatever you are feeling; I have learned a lot from you and I love you.” There are so many kinds of love, and it does the world so much good when we say those words, don’t you think? Your poems do a lot to bring that out.
Yes Sandy so many types of love. Some of us have much to give making it SO difficult when we lose a partner – for then where do we channel all this love? I know that when you are ‘in love’ with that someone special it stays with you always and never leaves your heart, but it is difficult to channel your energies or begin again when noone compares to your ‘special person. Still sometimes when we are older, love is much clearer – different love, shall we say, adult love. Two persons seeking solace in an often unkind world. ‘Love’ is not only for the young, or even for that ‘special person’ for that I know. Nothing can change what is in our hearts or ever change those feelings for those that have given us joy at anytime in our lives. For those you have loved always stay with you. No matter what the rest of your life brings. Hugs and blessings dear friend.