More Than a Decade

More Than a Decade

Nathaniel Allen

12/18/2022-12/23/2022

I don’t know if you’ll hear these words

Before I pass beyond the Earth

When all I am has turned to dust

And all I’ve done is lost to us

I wonder if you know my life

Beyond the day when I was eight

Does God ever whisper to you

Of all the things that I’ve been through

It’s more than a decade

It’s everything I am

Every friendship made

And wondering if I can

Walk this world in him

Live a life of love

Or must I start again

And plead with God above

When I think back to days long gone

I don’t remember much at all

Just little moments here and there

The time you made for us to share

I didn’t care much at the time

Of course you’d be here all my life

But when the cancer came and went

You were not there after it left

It’s more than a decade

It’s everything I am

Every friendship made

And wondering if I can

Walk this world in him

Live a life of love

Or must I start again

And plead with God above

So who

Would I be

If you

Were with me

‘Cause everyone who knew you longer

Talks about you like no other

Of wisdom vast and stories lasting

Far beyond the day you passed me

And I can’t promise I’d have listened

To the wisdom you’d have given

But maybe it would have made a difference

Just to hear your voice again

It’s more than a decade

It’s everything I am

Every friendship made

And wondering if I can

Walk this world in him

Live a life of love

Or must I start again

And plead with God above

It’s more than a decade

It’s everything I am

Every friendship made

And wondering if I can

Walk this world in him

Live a life of love

Or must I start again

And pray to God above