I want to be with you at the end of my days

When my last sunrise becomes my last sunset

When the few words that I haven’t said

Become the words that I most regret

When the skin that wraps my bones cannot tell warm from cold

When food no longer holds the value it once did

When the mind that thinks it’s thinking, is thinking it’s very old

And simple things are the nothings of which I’m glad I’m rid

But you my dear will make my eyes awash with fire

As I think of your faces only I have seen

My body will awaken by a love fueled of desire

As I think of the all the places that only we have been

So if tonight my heart stopped pumping blood

If my lungs stopped needing air

If my brain stopped thinking thoughts

And my body no longer cared

The strife, the challenges, the longing would not be on my mind

Nor would they be in my heart

Both of those places would be filled with love for you my dear

As they have been from the start