By Allison
A little piece of each of you
Is still with me today.
We parted ways and said "goodbye"
Yet here you are. Please stay.
Whether shared as friends on life's path,
Or shared as shadowed love,
Whether we both wandered away,
Or gave a little shove,
A bit of love was shared between.
I expected to feel hurt.
I'd die a bit and cry a bit
And look to rub in dirt.
But what I found, a sweet surprise!
the "missing you" and pain
Has been a source of sorrowful joy
And only been my gain.
My heart will always have a spot
For Audible UK,
Dominion, The Spice House, chess, UPP,
And country songs to play.
More than that, you challenged my heart
And showed me God is good.
Sabbath rest, on-ramps, love not hate,
the Church - I understood.
Bumping of rafts is glorious,
It jostles up my brain.
Stinging, stretching, changing my mind.
God helps to take the strain.
I do not wish to change the past.
God works things out first rate.
A bit of you will be with me.
His love will be my sate.
I expected that opening,
Parceling out my heart,
Would make me sad, yet still unchanged,
Would leave me but a part.
Yet as I said before in verse
This plan has made me grow.
I'm excited for the future,
New seeds I've yet to sow.
I pray the lessons I have learned
Will stay with me awhile.
The ache is there though dulled a bit
In the background meanwhile.
But overall, the sorrowful joy,
The pieces you have left,
We turned to go different ways, but
You will not count it theft?
