After All

If I could see you one more time
I’d want to tell you again
Thank you for everything you’ve done
You’ve been the best to me
After all
After everything you went through
You still came back
Helping me off my knees
Please, Shane, understand
Know that I’m trying the best I can
Yet there are still times
I can’t shake you from my mind
Your face consumes my thoughts
Your voice dances in my head
And I can’t sleep tonight
Because there you are again, after all
Helping me to my knees
So much more than just a friend
You were my confidant
My truest friend, always
There’s no rhyme to this one
There doesn’t have to be
Because this poem, it seems
Is just between us two
I want you back
Can’t say you’d stay
Your selflessness
Consumed you.
Can’t meet you ‘til eternity
Sometimes it seems so far
Away from where I am now
Seems so far to go
I look at where I’m at
And can’t help but think I’m blessed
To be alive, ‘cause that was
Your one wish…
After all
Your amazing soul
Is flying above me
You’re around me
Shane, I could repeat your name
Time and time again
But even that won’t change tonight
I wish I could see you just once
When you catch my tears in your hand
Please bring them to our Father
To mingle with His own so we might
Be united, and I might not forget
After all
He gave His Son for you and me
Jesus died to set us free
So here I am, after all
So with our tears in your grasp
And your love in our hearts
Dying, we live
After all