Promise Ring by Candice Snyder

Without your strength
and love and care,
I don’t know what I’ll do.
When (if) you leave (please don’t),
I’ll be- not alone, no,
but made to face what
I think I’ve always known.
You were the one- my love,
my rock, my home,
and in your dear
departed absence,
I promise- I swear-
that I’ll keep living,
just as you’ve asked.
That I won’t let your leaving
keep me lost in the past.