Hold me tender as I slumber
Stay beside me while I sleep
Be forever in my dreaming
Keep me close lest I should weep
Soothe my anguish in the morning
Ease my heart from noontime care
Then as twilight grows upon me
Promise that you'll still be there
So remain before the darkness
Touches all this troubled mind
Linger in the night's cold shadows
All my heartache to unbind
Hold me tender as I slumber
Rescue me from solitude
Stay with me until the morning
When the day be then renewed
Valerie Dohren
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hold-me-tender/
