WHEN YOU SING is for my dear love, Denny Alan McCue....it's a simple poem...still, it says everything I wish to say....

When you sing

I hear you singing
young
shock of yellow hair
glasses askew
thin wiry frame
blue eyes
sweet with love
voice true
smile
all for me
all for song

besides
your heart
your body
your laugh
your words
your love
your spirit

I have always
missed
your song

your fingers flying
on the banjo
nimble
full of fun

your music
I was so
proud
to share in

my music man
my music man

When you sing

I start to cry
for all I lost

I weep
to be honest
hard
like
the saddest song
you could sing

I want you
to sing me
a love song

make it so true
it will take away
all the pain
of all those years

I never sang with you

tho I sang
Denny's Song
almost
every day
of my whole life

that song
carried all my tears
straight into tonight

while I write
this poem

crying
for all the lost songs
all the lost years

wishing
with such hope

for all the songs to come
in your arms

while I listen
proud
to sing along
again
again

when
you
sing