WHY WON'T YOU STAY

Hear what they say

Before you leave today

Words with a sway

That may prompt you to stay

For your path will be longer

And the going harder, so much harder

Each step you take

Along the long and lonely way

 

Why won’t you stay?

Watch the children play

Not much left to say

Before you drift astray

If only to remind her

While under this sulky oak tree

That we had planted

One September long ago

 

And while I hold her

Are those her tears now

Falling on my shoulder

And there’s no point I should scold her

For she has turned away

 

Now she has gone

How to remain strong

Sulking under our tree

Waiting on her call to tea

But the leaves have all gone now

And the world grown cold and colder

With the branches bare

No one else to care

I’m left there

Without a prayer

Not even a ………..

Nothing left to share

Just wishing you were there

 

Wishing you were there …….         

 

 

 

Rodd Sherwin

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