Helen Lawson

When a pale sun rises in a light blue sky
thru black silhouettes of the eucalypt tree
and kookaburras laugh raucously on high
there is only one place that you can be.
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Christmas 2011

Two years - time does fly
so quickly, and yet
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If the me I should have been and the you who might have been had met, would we have even looked at each other?

If life had been kinder to each, would we have felt what we felt when we met?
If we had each had better childhoods, would we have been able to love each other better? Or would we have not needed each other at all? Would our lives have been better if we had never met?
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Time, unrelenting, passes on
Fleeting glimpses of you fill my waking moments
and haunt my sleep – the you of years ago
Young and full of hopes and dreams.
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Last thought at night and first in the morning
Memories of you - with me all the time
They make me cry and make me sing
No reason and no rhyme.
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You were my husband and best friend – I'll always miss you
since you left I've cried my heart out many times
knowing all the while that it can never bring you back.
There was no warning in the end and no adieu.
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