POETRY: "AMELIE" by Marc Peter

[marc p]

Amelie



Amelie—gone so soon and now I…
Can’t believe how life will be without you here
I believe you came into my life so I could
Learn more of love and giving of myself…
To love someone else

And every night I look outside
To see if maybe you’re standing there
I don’t know if you’ll come home
But it is my constant prayer

Amelie, come home
Amelie, please come home

Blessings come sometimes in strange disguise
I know you taught me to pause, to look and see
Sunsets and flowers, raindrops and autumn leaves
To say, “I love you” and to just be
And so I will

Turn my face to the cold eastern wind
Follow the river to the mountain where we met
I wonder where you are, I wonder if you’re all right
And I fall to my knees and pray…

Amelie, come home
Amelie, please come home

You added beauty and joy and wonder to my life
I wish you were still here lying by my side, Amelie…

Amelie, come home
Amelie, please come home


© 2005 Marc Peter

[Josh]

Man, our new addition, Jack, resembles your Amelie
Nice pic, by the way. It's so amazing how much impact animals can have on us. It's a wonder that they can give to us such rich spiritual experience and be so nonchalant about it.