Come Dear Give Me Your Hand



Take me down to the water again
I long to walk on the sand.
Walk me down to the water's edge,
Come dear, give me your hand.

Ease me along in my walker
Until I can go no more.
Watch me wheel to the sandy edge,
Then walk me down to the shore.

Let me remember the days long gone
When I'd run and dive in the sea.
Let me get just one toe wet
And thrill at what used to be.

Oh! work with me just a wee bit more
I fear that it shan't be long.
Oh! help me down just one more time
Too soon I shall be gone.

Walk with me with the love you have
Share with a heart that's true.
Walk with me, and in your turn,
May you have such kindness too.
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on January 11, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABA XCBC DEXE CXXD XFXF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 611
Words 139
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Neil McLeod

 · 1947 · Oxford

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 44 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Wilshire Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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  • neilm.55795
    Thank you it was a special moment for them. She never went down to the sea again!
    LikeReply4 months ago
  • Dianejean57
    I love it
    LikeReply4 months ago

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