A House Is Not A Home

Just a house really isn't a home and a chair really is just a chair without someone sitting there . . . . and I'm sometimes so poignantly reminded of it. . . . Today was such a day.

It's an emotional moment for me. Not so very unusual, but there are some things about it which brought a special focus and touched a special place in my heart. Today it was when I ran across several poems my gentle George wrote toward the end of his life which brought wistful tears to my eyes.

Let me share them with you ~

I languished on the edge

Of evening,

Quietly watching

As the evening slowly

Gave birth to the night.

The sun paused for

Just a moment

On the horizon -

Much like a lady

Entering a lake

- - or a maiden wading carefully

Into womanhood.

______©George Luther Hay

(early in 2008)

The sun fell down

A while ago

And where it went

I do not know.

But now it's gone

Without a trace.

The moon appears

To take its place.

The stars came out

To join with me

In what became

Our reverie.

One plus one

Equal two.

And that's the magic

Of me and you!!

______©George Luther Hay

The work was done,

The end of day.

The stars came out

To light the way.

The hill was steep,

The journey long

The way was filled

With scathing throng.

______©George Luther Hay

by: Burt Bacharach and Hal David

A chair is still a chair

Even when there's no one

Sitting there

But a chair is not a house

And a house is not a home

When there's no one there

To hold you tight,

And no one there you can

Kiss good night.

A room is still a room

Even when there's nothing there but gloom;

But a room is not a house,

And a house is not a home

When the two of us are far apart

And one of us has a broken heart.

Now and then I call your name

And suddenly your face appears

But it's just a crazy game

When it ends it ends in tears.

Darling, have a heart,

Don't let one mistake keep us apart.

I'm not meant to live alone.

Turn this house into a home.

When I climb the stair and turn the key,

Oh, please be there still in love with me.