I have seen the years run their course
between the tears and the tales of old
that run from your eyes crystal blue
down across your cheeks their fiery hue
Tears that have encircled the past
places that you shall never leave
Times in which your mind does cleave
Never to forget, not even a single word.

Yes the world has been hard
tortured your mind, your heart
bore you upon the wind so high
left within you the tears you cry,
Love that most simplest essence of life
that made you whole as a wife
You bound your steps and made your way
Upon the flowers of yesterday.

I was there when nature tore apart
wrecked the universe from your heart
left a world shattered to the illusion of life
Held open the wounds that echoed strife
You stood there, glaring out for hope
in a sea so turbulent that you couldn't cope
yet you lived, you gave all a woman could
More than what any person should.

I look back across the years divide
see the person that within at times you hide
The little girl that so wanted to live
instead her all she was destined to give
Across the pain and yes, bitter years
where well has flooded those worn, torn tears
I still know the woman that here holds
all the love that within her bold
reaches out to all she has ever had
The children that makes her within so glad
And there holds her dreams.

Alisdaire O'Caoimph