The Garden Seat

Yesterday I was going through some of my files in order to create new files and purge old ones.  Everything was moving alone fine.  I was quiet and focused, with just a small lonely ache in my stomach.  I came across a file entitled, Written Gift.  Inside, I found copies of several things which Michael had written for me on different occasions.  I smiled on the inside,with tears on the outside, as I read a few of them that were cute and/or silly.... then I read this one - The Garden Seat.   He printed it out onto a paper with an old scripted font, with the first letter of the first word of each stanza being over sized black, and the rest of the letters were in red.  It was the toughest thing I have ever had to read.  I had to stop periodically and sob... yes, tears dripped onto the pages. It made me desperately miss him, miss our times together in the garden, wonder what was going on in heaven at that moment, and feel, with great pain, the separation that was now between us.

The Garden Seat

The Garden Seat waits patiently

Beside the ivy wall,

Calling us to come and rest

Before another fall.

Its measurement was made for two,

But like the nearby vine,

The garden seat sees only one

Whose hearts are intertwined.

It sits among a sacred place

Where both our hands have sowed,

Where memories will never fade

and new ones daily grow.

Not far away, the fountain sings

A faithful lullaby

And from the garden seat we hear

The years go swiftly by.

It listens as we laugh and cry

And seems to understand

The conversation of our hearts

Beyond this place of man.

There must have been a garden seat

In Eden long ago,

Where Adam sat with his first Love

And watched his garden grow.

And so, my love, come sit with me

And share with me your dreams

What time has stolen, do not fear

The Garden Seat redeems.

I believe that there's a Garden Seat

For us in heaven too

One day you'll find me patiently

Waiting there for you....

One day you'll find me patiently

Waiting there for you.

I love you, Babe........... Michael

Happy Valentine's Day 2005