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I see you in the darkness of the night

I hear you in the silence of the seas

I touch you in the breeze upon the hills

I sense you in the garden, on my knees

While weeding out the plants which you have watered,

While warming chilly hands beside the fire,

While meditating on the evening sunlight

While singing cheek-by-jowl in the choir

For you have never left me when I doubted

Nor given up the fight I might have lost

When, ignorant, I thought that you had vanished,

Insisting I alone must count the cost

For all the stupid things, the selfish actions,

Which blight my memory and seek to crush

All hope of any single act of kindness

Which could alleviate the futile rush

To justify myself, when all I needed

Was simply to accept, not question why,

Your selfless love that's always here beside me

And always will be, till the day I die.

I see you in the darkness of the night

I hear you in the silence of the seas

I touch you in the breeze upon the hills

I sense you in the garden, on my knees.

Brian Hick summer 2011

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