We just finished our dinner
and I'd gone in the den
and turned on the TV
when she walked in and kissed me.
And she said
Honey, I know it's late but if you don't minds,
my shopping gotten a little behind
so I think I'll drive downtown to the grocery store.
Well I didn't look up,
just nodded ok and asked her to hand me an ashtray.
And when she did I reached over and squeezed her hand,
and then she left and I shuttered a minute
at the thought of my world without her in it
and I ressuringly sought the touch of my wedding band.
Well I musta been dozing,
cuz I didn't hear the door
and I thought now that's strange,
I've never done that before.
But I looked up and she was standing by my chair, Kinda snucked in on me I said,
and she smiled and nodded her head
and I told her that she looked just like an angel standing there.
For a long moment she didn't say a thing
and then she caressed her gold wedding ring
and I thought I saw a teardrop in her eye.
Honey, you'll never know how much I love you she said,
and I thought of the many years that we had been wed.
As I Told her that no one could be as happy as I
and then the strangest feeling filled the room.
Not one of happiness but one of gloom and for the first time in my life,
I saw sadness in her face.
I reached out to touch her and she drew away and she told me again,
that ours was a love that time could never erase.
And then I thought I heard a thousand voices singing,
but I realized it was the telephone ringing.
And that's when I saw the halo surround her pretty golden hair.
I turned trembling to the reciever
and heard a cold voice say there had been a wreck out
on the highway and I knew that when I looked back,
she wouldn't be there
because it was an angels way of saying our last goodbye.
