I'm Sorry I Can't Be with You Today

Music: Fugue in C Major. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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I'm sorry I can't be with you today When all the family's gathered in one place. But I am with you in another way, A current in the stream of what you say, Alive within your consciousness of grace. I'm sorry I can't be with you today To share your happiness and touch the clay That once it was my fortune to embrace. But I am with you in another way, An intimate that time cannot betray, With you always, unconstrained by space. I'm sorry I can't be with you today To watch with you the slanting sunlight play, Casting lovely shadows through the lace. But I am with you in another way, Waiting for you where the shadows lay Their darkness soft across your gentle face. I'm sorry I can't be with you today. But I am with you in another way.