YOU TRIED TO TELL US


“Softly as I leave You” you sang

As though your heart would break.

I listen to this song now over and over,

Feeling it was your way of saying you must abdicate,

But, not knowing the time or day,

You tried again to tell us when you sand “My Way”.

The death bell has rung;

Your last song has been sung.

You have crossed the bar,

But you haven’t gone too far,

For your presence is felt day and night.

Even though you are out of sight,

From our eyes only did you depart,

For it is impossible for you to leave my heart.
 

©Joan Buchanan West

This is the story of a man who was in a hospital, and he was dying.
His wife had been sitting by his bedside for three days and three nights.
Somewhere on the third day, between midnight and day,
she laid down beside him and dozed off to sleep.
Well, he sensed her when she dozed off to sleep,
and at the same time he felt himself start to die.
He didn't want her to see him pass away,
so he took his notepad by the side of the bed and he wrote...

with Sherrill Nielsen

Softly (Softly)
I will leave you (I will leave you softly)
For my heart would break (For my heart would break)
If you should wake (If you should wake)
And see me go (And see me go)
So I leave you (So I leave you)
Softly (Softly)
Long before you miss me (Long before you miss me)
Long before your arms can beg me stay
(Long before your arms can beg me stay)
For one more hour (For one more hour)
For one more day (For one more day)
After all the years (After all the years)
I can't bare the tears (I can't bare the tears)
To fall (To fall)
So softly, (So softly) so softly
(I will leave you there)
I will leave you there

~His death gave eternal life to a day:
August 16, 1977~

~Made with Love~

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Joan Buchanan West