But Love Remains

I know what it's like to lose, 

To lose a father

And watch him slip away. 

I know what it's like to hold your breath everyday 

To cry in secret

To fall in pieces 

And paint your pillow with heartbreak 

I know what it is to resent your pain. 

And bleed somewhere deeper than the veins

To be a walking memorial service, carrying the odour of a loved one like a stain

I know what it is to mourn for the times that never came

An arm to hold you on your wedding day

A shoulder for your son and daughter to lay

But when we leave this world 

And our flesh and bones fade in the dirt

Our story will not end in the grave 

Because love remains.

When the organs inside us have failed and sickness prevails

Love remains 

When the smell of cologne 

And their imprint on the pillow

Have started to fade

Love remains 

When day turns into year and year into decade

Love remains 

When the trees have fallen and their fruit decayed 

But love remains

When time has withered and the sun begun to shiver 

Love remains.

When the ocean has died of thirst and the wind given up its chase

But love...remains 

This life is just a whisper 

Our best moments only a sliver 

A taste

We are more than the confines of this world 

More than man, husband, 

Sister, cousin or girl

our bodies are like paper waiting to be unfurled

Only eternity will reveal our true faces

And on that joyous day we will greet each other 

without hands, without lips, 

our only language is this:

But love remains.