Something about your smile
Enchanted me when I first met you
Just a few short months ago

As I looked into your friendly eyes
When we said hello
I realized you were someone
Worth knowing as more than a friend

Cherie, the dreams and hopes I had
Are all gone
The illusions have disappeared
As suddenly as they came

The tenderness of our short-lived happiness
Has, like an evening sunset,
Turned into darkness of a gloomy night

You are young and oh, so sweet!
You are free and single
Like the robin perched atop yonder branch
Which, alighting an hour or two, is gone

The winter months are around the bend
The snowflakes I can already see
In cold and bitter nights
I’ll lie and dream
Of things that might have been

But you, like the robin, which I still can see
Will fly away to chirp in someone else’s sweet dreams
May you enlighten that someone’s life
The way you did mine

With this sad adieu
I thank you for stopping by my heart
Even though
‘Twas just for a short, sweet, but precious while

Cherie, when you think of me in days to come
If ever you do
Do not shed a tear of sympathy
Remember me as someone good
Please forgive the wrongs and forget the bad

Goodbye, sweet angel
And God bless you
Now and always.