Ashley Smith - All Alone

A hand to aid along the road
A laugh to lighten any load
A place to bring a burdened heart
And heal the ache of sorrows dart
Who'd willing share in joy or tears
And help to ease the darkest fears
Or my soul like his own defend
And all because he was my friend

No grave could hold so free a soul
I see him in the frisking foal
I hear him laughing on the breeze
That stirs the very tops of trees
He soars with falcons on the wing
He is the song that nightbirds sing
Death never dared him captive keep
He lies not there he does not sleep

But there is silence at my side
That haunts the place he used to ride
And my companion cannot allay
The loss i have sustained this day
How bleak the future now has grown
Since i must face it all alone
My road is weary, dark, and steep
And it is for myself i weep

Ashley Smith

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