Knowing

How do you say a last goodbye
When the setting sun is nigh?
You remember all the years
When laughter came in tears.

Every day would bring a morning
As the rising sun was dawning.
Days would never have an end;
The night another day would send.

When the night would last too long,
The birds no longer sang that song
That brought the morning sun to life
And shut the darkness out with light.

Now the darkness cloaked the light;
sorrow dressed the sun at night.
No longer would a new morn be
Since light was just a memory.

Hoping that the night would say,
"Send the light just one more day",
You would set off in the night
To catch the first ray of the light.
You would bring a rose along
To recall the sparrow's song;
Spices at the journey's end
For your mind and soul to mend.

Your heart is from your body torn
When you see the tomb at dawn.
It is empty like the night
But above a shining light.

Your tears increase the more
As a man steps to the fore.
The sun your eyes have dimmed
For you see the hedges trimmed.

"Tender of the garden here,
Don't confirm my darkest fear.
Have you taken him away?
Tell me what you have to say?"

"Mary"