When I am not with you
I am like smoke curled around your hearth,
Living in yesterday’s embers,
With promise of fire tomorrow-

When I am not with you
I am like the breeze around your house,
With memories fluttering down,
And the shoots of tomorrow-

When I am not with you
I am the whisper in your heart,
Speaking of gentleness gone by,
Holding the tenderness of tomorrow-

Was there a time ever without you
When I am with you forever…