Always at my side,
Ever since I can remember,
She accompanied me through life.

She walked to school with me on rainy mornings,
Waited for me by the gate so she wouldn't distract me,
With her whispered words and gentle laughter.

She was there, with me later,
When I searched for jobs, and paid the bills, moved into the city, got dumped by lovers whom I failed to love enough, buried my parents and moved back to their little town,
Too much of a coward to sell the house where I grew up.

She is here with me now as my turn arrives
To leave this world, to move on.
But I'm not sad, I'm happy because for the first time, as my soul shifts between the world of the living and the dead,
I can finally see her.

She is waiting for me,
And we will spend the rest of eternity together,
In love and happiness,
As we had once spent a life long past.

Always at my side,
Ever since I can remember,
She, my fated lover.