Semper amo te
Now to a friend I say
Live not for the past
nor that which is yet to come.
For memory can last,
But the future is deaf
Its ears fall numb,
to plans that we all lay.
As the past is forever,
And the future will never,
never live beyond our dreams.
But here now that I find myself,
not dreading future,
Only finding wealth,
as each pearl to a necklace,
so each moment with you.
I grow near to the end,
as these many years bend
my body, but not spirit,
for that will never end.
Semper te amo, my dear, rest.
Would it but fall from me,
if this moment was but a test,
I would give my own hea