How They Often Let Us Know

Those we love and have since gone
Always watch I feel it's so~
And when we seem to be in strife
Often they let us know~
That they are not that far away
I've had myself proof of this in past~
And usually often it's the same for all
Their love forever it will last~
Little signs they leave around
But we often just do not know~
That they are often by our side
Long after they the time they go~
I've known who it was and that's for sure
In our home walking into a room~
And out of the blue and it is true
Smelling strongly my mothers own perfume~
Once down the back dads bike in old shed
That was missing more than one spoke~
And as I walked in to get something there
It was filled with his own tobacco smoke~
Once I remember over time same thing
I placed my car keys on the table there~
Shortly to return to get them again
And could not find them anywhere~
I came home one day and parked my car
Next to the shed I know I did for sure~
And later it was moved to another place
Sitting there beside the garden door~
I have in the past put a garden fork
In a place I always leave where I can find~
And going back shortly to get it it's gone
And no I am not nor never was losing my mind~
I get cold shivers sometimes in the warmest room
That seem to then pass simply right through~
And others sitting next to me as well
Often they have felt the same thing too~
I have been told by visitors at my home
They saw an old man down near the shed~
They explained the person and it was my Dad
And he had been simply years then dead~
He told me once if I had any strife in life
To ask him and the answers they would come~
I've done this often and most of the time
The problem soon after it was won~
Many ways they let you know
You will only know for sure~
When you recognize a smell or the likes
From those that you ever so adore~

Terrence Michael Sutton
Copyright 2008

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