Without You

Should the sun cease to shine

Else we part a single night

Then I shall walk each darkened day

By the gleam of your eye light.

Or would my home fall to ash

Should your kiss I embrace

Then from your lips I shall drink

Every raindrop upon my face.

Suppose every penny would fly away

If you sing another song.

What wealthy pauper I shall be

To live in your concert all lifelong

Or say all color be drained away

When your smile I next view.

How dazzling that gray world shall be,

Each shade an ode to you.

And if the instant I hold you tight

My heart be put to rest

Then in your arms I shall gladly die

To the music in your chest.

For without my darling love,

Her each and every bit,

The world loses all its magic

And leaves me empty as a pit.

Dedication: To my darling wife