A Chance To Dream. Poem by Barbara Clafton

You came into my life, answered my dreams
and God created you especially for me.
At the beginning, this was how it seemed,
but somehow, it was never meant to be.

We had so many good times, you and I.
I thank you for those happier days
and promise I'll not sit alone and cry
when I think about us going our separate ways.

Routine life is to begin again,
the hardest time, when 'singleness' re-starts.
I take my place as loser in life's games
and join the others with gentle lonely hearts.

I know the love we shared isn't over, is not gone.
it is just frozen in time and in our hearts,
to linger like a memory, holding on,
to save myself from falling apart.

Of your feelings, I was never very sure.
I was afraid that we'd not make it to life's end.
Although I always wanted so much more
at least, you'll be forever more, my friend.

So, for every word that ever went unspoken,
for every smile that left behind a promise broken,
for each apology we made, but did not mean -
I love you, and I thank you -
for giving me the chance to dream.