Would You Be My Home

i have to go away i don't know where i'll go where time will lead me i don't know if i'll survive if i'll return i know you don't know me but would you be my home i'd write you every day and you would't have to reply two years gone and you've been my life i'm scared of the world and all that is surrounding me no friends no family and nobody but you to talk to someday i'll return my battle fought and i will leave you alone but please don't stop reading you are my only home 4 years passed and no reply she has not written since 2 years ago i recieved the last and this is how it went of all this time of all this pain you have been right there i feel alone but yet so together i thank you for your letters you need not write me though thank you for staying there thank you for being here you will always be in my heart and i want to tell you something you have been in my heart since i left long ago and i've loved you from then on i don't expect you to understand but i hope you do when i come home (just 14 monthes to go) will you marry me will you be my home a knock to the door and a tear down my cheek a man with a letter and an old tattered box "ma'am i hate to tell you but your husband died" puzzled at the thought my knowing in my heart he was the only man i've ever loved ever since the start i went through the box and there i found 4 things a compass and a pen a picture and a letter reading the words that he last wrote brought tears to my heart "i'm sorry i can't return i hope this reaches you i was hurt awhile ago and i lost a lot they say that my time is short so i want to leave you this my compass the one that pointed me to you the pen that wrote every word of love the picture that never left my heart and this letter enclosed is something more i've had it all my life and it is the most important it is my mothers wedding ring and i want you to have it my beautiful wife i know we never married but i've dreamt it many times so when you go to sleep tonight i hope you dream of me and i hope you see the life the life i always dreamed thank you for loving me and thank you even more for being my home"