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Audio and Video Music:
Forgive Me.
By Damiano Baldoni.
Performed by
Damiano Baldoni
at the
Free Music Archive
under an Attribution
license.
I cannot think you're not
alive somewhere.
I think of you just as I did before.
No sudden gust of wind has closed the door
Or made your presence vanish in thin air.
I write you this because I know you're there;
That even after death there must be more.
So does faith one's inner sun restore
After bitter darkness few can bear.
My mind and heart have not yet lost a friend
Even though my senses are bereft,
For you remain the witness of my soul.
No mere accident our love can end
So long as I have will and memory left,
And you lie silent on some unknown
shoal.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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