By Your Side

Please try not to cry
But when you do
I’ll dry each eye

For your health I will pray
That you get better
With each day

I’ll take away what you hate
I just hope
That I’m not too late

But sometimes it’s beyond my aid
And I started to notice
That you were beginning to fade

I was bound to you by our love
And all I could do
Was to ask you to wait for me up above

I watched as you started to part
But you would forever be
In my heart

So I stayed by your side
Until the very day
That you died