AWAITING THE THUNDERSTORM STRIKE

LIKE SLAPS FROM HEAVY HANDS

A TERROR ON ITS SOUL

CAUSING PAIN ALIKE

NO HOPE FOR A LATER SEASON

NO MINDFUL COMPANION FROM A PERSON

ALL BUT HEARTFELT GRIEVE FOR A REASON

NEVER TO TEACH GENERATIONAL LESSONS

ITS MIGHTY FALL IT AWAITS

LIKE ITS COLLEAGUES DREADFUL FALL

LEAVING ITS TINY LITTLE  PORTRAIT

ON THE MIGHTY TREE SO TALL

ALWAYS ACCLAIMING AT THE TOP OF ITS VOICE

“HOW DREADFUL YOU ARE GREAT WIND!

COME TAKE ME AND STOP THE NOISE

AND GRANT PEACE TO MY MIND”

IT SEEMED LIKE THE EARTH SHOOK

YOU WERE MY RESCUE FROM A GREAT HOOK

THOUGH MY INNERMOST PAIN YOU TOOK

AND GRANTED RELIEVE THEREIN

I ALWAYS SAW THAT FLASH IN YOUR EYES

ONE THAT SMILES EVEN WHEN YOU ARE GONE

THE PLACE MY SOLACE AND COMFORT LIES

EVEN WHEN I WONDER HOW TIME FLIES

I THOUGHT I HAD HAD MY GREATEST MIRACLE

I LONGED TO MAKE YOU MY ORACLE

TO WORSHIP AT YOUR FEET EACH DAY

AND NEVER TO PUT YOU AWAY

BUT TEARS FLOW EACH TIME I REMEMBER

HOW GREAT A HERO YOU WERE

AND HOW DEATH HAS SNATCHED YOU AWAY

TAKING AWAY MY TREASURED SUNRAY

YOU’LL FOREVER REMAIN IN MY MEMORY

I’LL ALWAYS CHERISH WHAT WE SHARED

FOR YOU WERE MY TREASURED JEWEL