What use are you now
Now you are gone
You promised forever
My only one
You promised you’d stay
Through sickness and health
But the sickness crept up
And with quiet and stealth
It took you away

First just in mind
As you failed to recall
Our memories, the date
And then nothing at all
Then came the failing
Of your body once strong
Lying broken and crumbled
And after not very long
It took you away

So what use are you now
As I mourn and I grieve
That wasn't part of the deal
You said you’d not leave
I wonder if maybe
We should never have met
Then my heart wouldn't ache
With no love to forget, when
It took you away

But for the years that we spent
For the laughter we shared
For the children we raised
For the way that you cared
For the chance to have known you
For our souls that entwined
You will always, forever
Still be part of mine
It won’t take you.