APPARITION

She was out beneath the weeping cherry tree

Head bowed low praying on her knees

When I heard her crying I stopped right there

A victim of its echoes on the evening air

Averting my eyes like a gentleman

I lowered my head with my hat in hand

Felt the onset of a light fall rain

I called upon the Lord to come and ease the pain

When I looked up she was already gone

Sorrow drifted through me as my hat went on

Tears and rain collided as I turned to go

She was an apparition for a broken soul

~~~*Chorus*~~~

My friends kept saying time would heal my pain

I had to bust away before I went insane

There’s only so much patience in a grieving man

And if they haven’t lived it they can’t understand

When you’re destined for forever you are as one

A half of a whole will always come undone

They said there is no way you can defeat death

I took my pretty apparition, bought a farm, and left

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She was singing to the baby by the garden gate

I was running towards them just to touch his face

Almost there came the truth I’d feared

You can’t approach an apparition or it disappears

I savor the evenings when she comes to me

I can hold her like I’m meant to in my sweetest dreams

I greet the early morning with a thank you prayer

Smile at the apparition in the rocking chair

~~~*Lyrical Bridge*~~~

You can call me crazy it won’t bother me

I don’t care if you can’t visualize the things I see

Only God knows the reason he took them away

An apparition is my minds way to let them stay

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~~~*2nd Chorus*~~~

You can try to convince me time will heal my pain

That won’t truly happen till we’re whole again

There’s only one solution for this grieving man

If you haven’t lived it you won’t understand

When you’re destined for forever you are as one

A half of a whole will always come undone

So I create an apparition when my heart does bleed

Defeat death and keep them here with me

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~~*Finale*~~

You can call me crazy 

It won’t bother me

I don’t care if you can’t visualize 

The things I see

Only God knows the reason

He took them away

An apparition is my minds way

To let them stay

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Teresa Lynn Johnson

Wrdspnr@aol.com

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