If Prayers Were Really Answered Poem by Steve Ricketts

Do you know that I love you, because I told you every day, for I would always tell you before I went away. But this time it was different, because I'm still sitting here and it's you my darling Linda that left and gone away from me. You went away in silence, not a word was said, you couldn't even wake, to tell me of the journey that lay ahead, it was all that you could muster to draw your last breath. So finally you left all your pain behind, now I'm sitting here holding onto mine.

I tried to find a new way to express to you, how I am feeling and the Love I have for you, no matter how I start, it still comes out the same, the love I have is forever as long as it's for you. My nights are cold and lonely, without you being here, never would I imagine this is how life would be. Never was a time where you weren't close to me, never did I think that I'd be losing you. How often did I say that I would go before you.

I know what finally caught you and made you leave me here, it was that awful cancer that every one does fear, now I smoke more often than I ever did before, perhaps this is the answer to satisfy my prayer. For I am very tired now, no rest can there be found, all I ever wanted was to a true love of mine own and when I finally found you, you were taken from our home. How can this be answered, I know it's not with prayers. Because if prayers were really answered then I know this much for sure, you would never have been taken, and you would still be here.