The Garden Gate

Today I touched your garden gate,

The crumbling wood and rust.

How could I replace them now,

Its pieces turned to dust?



Today I breached your garden gate

As I had done before.

I wondered if you might be there, 

Tilling earth once more.



Today I closed your garden gate

Behind me once again.

I walked along your garden path

The way I did back then.



Today beyond your garden gate

Where I shall wait for now;

They say you won't, but I just know,

You must return somehow.



Today beyond your garden gate

Where I've shed many tears;

They all expect to see me there,

The place I've come for years.



Today beyond your garden gate

I felt you there somehow.

Twas then I came, at last to peace.

A place unknown till now.



For just beyond your garden gate

My destiny was cast.

A place from where no man returns.

I found you there at last.