Gone Forever

Gone Forever

You're gone forever
Your loving heart had beat
Its last beat
Everything you'd give me
Love, companionship, a smile or a comforting word,
They are nothing but ashes and bitter memories

I cannot bring myself to stop weeping at home
And cursing you in public
I walk around like a lost child
And I hear your voice
In the wind and trees,
'round the park where we met

I remember meeting you in that park,
And When I saw you,
I new I had found my soulmate
We only had three years of happiness

I can still hear your echoing words
After I came home from a party drunk one evening
You said to me
"Never drink and drive."

You were kind and honest,
And when our daughter was born
You were a model father
And you never ever
Let anyone drive drunk

So tell me why
On that cold New Year's Eve
No one told sixteen year old Libby
Not to drink and drive

What were you thinking my dear,
When her car slammed into yours?
Where they on our daughter strapped in the backseat?
Or perhaps me waiting for you at home.

I sit here now,
Looking at your graves
And I wonder
Why Libby lived,
And you had to die