Paz G. Banas
March 14, 1914 - June 28, 2007
Photographed by: Jaime Zobel de Ayala
You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and mother
Then my world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I could
Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem, for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle
Too many years, fighting back tears
Why cant the past just die
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Time to forgive, Teach me to live
Give me the strength to try
No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye.
Help me say goodbye.
-Andrew Lloyd Webber-
