Your Promise

Time cruelly struck with cancer overwhelming Forcing you to leave me, but not by choice Because your life's journey reached its end Forcing us to part, beloved beat of my heart. You broke the promise made when first we met When we became lovers, bountiful in our passion Bold, young and resolute, such happiness and joy Thinking we had found our own lasting paradise. You promised never to leave me, our souls united. But ruthless Death took you away into the grave Soon I will follow stepping out into the darkness. Oh, my beloved, you are the love of my life And only promise you broke was to die before me. Love, I know, survives the grave and we shall meet again.