Love Remains
        Dearly beloved... We've journeyed together for ages   We've gone through many phases together   We loved, laughed, sang, danced   We played, prayed and when the time came to go we often stayed   A hope, a dream we had yet we could not attain   Change came, yet we fought for things to stay the same   Fear of the unknown held us mercilessly in chains   The very thing we did not know, through time we  all come and go   But Love abounds and Love remains     Dearly beloved... I love  you so much that even though things did not go as we wished   I am forever grateful for the things that did   Yes, I sighed when I thought the end came too swift   But now I am grateful for you were  to me a gift   A teacher who's lessons I could never have missed   A healer who's hands I could not have dismissed   If not for you my ignorance would forever persist   If not for you health would not have found my disease   Now I know that Love abounds and Love remains     I'm truly gra...