A Song For You (For Earnie)

Lie so still I can hear every whispered word

Things I've often heard remind me of dreams I hold dear.

You are the first dream that stays on my mind

Daybreak is a time when you always seems so near.

As flows the river, so flows my love for you

And what I am going through seems to pull me right along

All my emotions all these things I feel Tell me thais love is real

So I'm writing this song for you.

I can almost see you smiling asd I write these words

I can almost feel you in my heart as the music is heard

And if I listen with peace in my heart and no doubt that it's true

We will never be apart as I sing this song for you.

I'm going to love when there's no more love but that's still not enough

Just returning to where I have been

No thought of tomorrow, nor of what I'll do unless it is with you

Leaves me happy once again.

I can almost see you smiling asd I write these words

I can almost feel you in my heart as the music is heard

And if I listen with peace in my heart and no doubt that it's true

We will never be apart as I sing this song for you.

1976 Anthony Foster

This is the first song I wrote for the one God sent to me- I include it here because God provided the song as well as all else- may He be forever blessed! He is indeed Yahweh Yireh, providing the answer to the prayer that He provided first - that He send me His choice for my life partner. I see in it the commitment to love when the feelings cease- but lo and behold, they haven't- the fire of romance is sustained and even deepened in intensity and focus by that commitment- The world won't tell you that little secret! I met Earnie, appropriately enough at church where I was creating posters for a concert we were putting on locally- Our youth minister, Kenneth Bailey, who was later to participate in our marriage ceremony, introduced her to me. Thanks, Ken, wherever you are...