Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She’s lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
It was about 6am on Sunday.
He walked by the river near his new house in which his beautiful wife was still sleeping. The house was two floors high and had big windows opening to the sea into which the river merged. He had often started out into the horizon since it seemed to have a calming affect on him. To see all the seagulls flying freely and peacefully and to share the first sunrays of the day with his wife.
Today however everything was different.
He couldn’t put a finger on why, but something made him feel different. He just felt there was something missing.
There was a wooden bridge crossing the river and that was the place where he had asked the most important question in his life. His mind drifted into her magical moment…
He had taken her hand into his and he kneeled down on one knee, “would you, my love…” he took a deep breath, “….would you marry me?” He could still remember her amazement and for a second he had thought it would all be over for them and she would turn him down. But then, as the last rays of the setting sun sparkled in the river and played their eternal game in the water, she gave him the answer he had wished-no, prayed for to once get. “Yes…”the tears lived down her cheeks as she repeated it again, “Yes, my love. Of course I will marry you….”
And the thought crossed my mind
If I never wake in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart
The day had been a day to remember. Never had he felt such a deep love and commitment into anyone else. He pretty much doubted he’d never will. That was when he realized how happy he was, how blessed he had been to have an angel like her in his life.
He leaned on the parapet and a breeze hit his face as he closed his hazel eyes. That was when the thought crossed his mind. ‘How could she know how much I really love her?’ A lonely tear suddenly appeared from his eye, a tear he never expected to share. He cried because he loved her so much. They say that in the end love makes you cry, and he had always thought it would be because love would abandon him. Now he knew it was because the love he felt was unconditional, irreplaceable and never ending.
If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she’s my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes
“So what if tomorrow never came?’ he found himself thinking. ‘What if she never found out how much I love her?’
The thought hurt his heart. It made it cry large tears and almost broke it. He rested his head in his hands and once again closed his eyes, only to open them when a white dove landed onto the parapet, right beside him. He reached out to it but it flew off and soared right under the foggy clouds.
‘Cause I’ve lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
Like the dove, love could just as easily fly away if we didn’t cherish it. And God knows how much he loved her and he never wanted to let her go. Eventhough she would be an angel missing from heaven, he never wanted to live without her. The heaven would just have to find another way to survive, without her. One thing he knew for sure. He wouldn’t survive without her.
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there’s no second chance to tell her how I feel
He realized that time was limited and that he should let his angel know every day just how much he loved her. No matter how dependent it would seem, she would hear the three inseparable words every single day of her life. I love you.
If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she’s my only one
The sunlight was welling in the room she was sleeping in and it woke her up. She couldn’t see her husband sleeping beside her and knitted her brows. She grabbed her bathrobe from the chair next to the window and glanced out noticing him leaning against the parapet of the bridge. ‘What is he doing out there at this hour?’
She brushed her hair and got downstairs. A soft wind from the sea blew against her face as she opened the door to their garden. Once again she was amazed by the beauty of the place they were living in and the river was the most attractive feature in it. She finally reached the bridge and saw a tear on her husband’s cheek.
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes
“Kent ? sweetheart, what’s wrong?” He was startled and quickly wiped the tear he was well aware of away. He took her in his arms and hugged her tightly, never willing to let go. “Kent ? Has something happened?” She hugged him as well and rested her head on his shoulder. ‘Nothing, my love. There is just something I need to tell you.’ He pulled away from her and placed his hands onto her cheeks. ‘What?” She asked and touched his hand, eyes shinning brightly. “I love you more than anything in the world.”
So tell that someone that you love
Just what you’re thinking of
If tomorrow never comes
Song sang by Ronan Keating
