No idle verse or lonely pen
Could match my true emotion
Of the soldier resting here,
Of his honor and devotion.

A fateful day in June,
A decade or so ago
My life and love were forever changed,
As I watched you turn to go.

Young and naïve am I, I know
But sacred was your part
Inspiration’s cruel irony,
On an unsuspecting heart.

I knew not from where I came,
I knew not where I should go
But you believed that I could be
The person I now know.

A friend I always knew in you,
A lover couldn’t be,
A wish that maybe “one day”
Would be waiting patiently.

I’ll never know the reason,
Perhaps I never should,
Yet, I’ll never love another,
As we may have loved...if we only could.

I say a nightly prayer for you,
And give a daily smile,
For a soldier and a friend,
For a fight that was worthwhile.

Rest in peace, my dearest love
And know that forget, I couldn’t do.
All of the blessings I’ve known in life,
The greatest of all is to have known you.