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Jun 2016
Oh, how I have walked this earth
for many a day
searched and searched
in all the corners of this world
for a lovers heart that only beats for me.
And in all my days
that I have ever walked upon the earth
love was not to be found
and my heart sang its sad song.
Oh, its mournful cry!
Oh, I can hear it now within my breast!
Oh, its was as if love hid its face for me
as though when at last I found her
I would trample her underfoot
and show an icy heart
and a loveless face.
Oh, I felt as though my heart
was a house of death
that was the home
of ever low and vile disease.
Oh, the pain the grew within my heart
as I search and found love in no ones face
and I knew that all hope was lost.
And I mourned as that thought
sunk deep within my soul.
Oh, how my hope was gone
that love would never shine
into my soul.
And I wondered like some hopeless and aimless cloud
with my soul all awash
in its sea of sad thoughts.
When as if a bolt of lightening
as though it were flung
from the highest heaven
from Zeus's very throne!
and tore its way into my lonely mortal coil.
For in the very moment of time
the light of your lovely form
shined into my eyes.
And from that time
you have lived like an immortal goddess
within my heart.
Oh, you are in every breath I take
and with every beat of my heart
it beats for you.
and in all the infinite days
that I walk this earth
making my way through this dark world
my path is forever lit
by the ever shining light of your love.
And all my memoriesΒ Β 
of you my dear love
ever flood my soul.
Oh, when I awake in the stillness
of some midnight hour
you are there
as you memory fills mind
and works its way deep into my soul.
And all my love
and all my longing
and all my struggles to make you my one
though what ever the pain
and what ever the cost
seem as only a fleeting moment
in a sea of eternity
when I count the love
that ever flows from your heart
and the length of forever within your arms.
Written by
Olan Douglas Webb
241
   Dana Colgan
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