Reminders of her, for so long
...just couldn't tolerate!
But now I love to touch them all!
So blessed is this state!

This phase was just so absent, gone!
But now it's present, here!
...can feel such closeness to the times
we had...it's present, dear!

For so long, couldn't touch those sights;
to see 'em, could not bear!
But now I feel delight and glee
each time I visit there.

I'm grateful...didn't get the deal
Roy Campanella faced!
His crippled state din't ever heal!
Mine has. I feel so graced.

I love to touch the spots we shared,
when we would take our walks!
It feels like we are once more paired!
Such happiness now knocks!

The roads we trekked, the sights we saw
now brings me such delight!
It seems we're back together! Oh!
My joy is vivid, bright!

For years, if she was stirred up due
a sight my path did cross,
I just felt sadness, grief, remorse
and such a sense of loss!

But now there's pleasure when I touch
the times, which share, did we.
It's such a gift. What then arrives?
A state of revelry!

I love to park before the road,
upon which she did live!
Then walk before her parents' house;
my state so positive!

We did this Oh! so many times,
I now feel pleasure, such!
The sights; they bring me back again;
our love...can feel and touch!

And while we walked if see, I did
a coin upon the ground,
I'd pick it up and feel so pleased;
a special thing, I'd found.

So now, while walking if I spot
a coin, it brings me smiles!
It just reminds me of the times
we walked those many miles.

And ev'ry one, I glorify;
each one of them, I save.
They're honored next to all the gifts,
which Colette, to me, gave.

And though I do enjoy the spots
which on we walked, we two;
I like to then enhance the stroll;
her marker then, to view.

She's resting 'fore her mom and dad
and right next to her niece.
So, when she's there in front of me
our closeness does increase!

Her marker is so much like her!
I sense a love so true!
She's back in Suncook with her folks;
just like the Col I knew!