Idiot's song

Give me peace from you
Allow me to go on
And be what I was before you
If ever there was that time

But talk to me, talk to me
Or die before I do
I'll come where your body is
Though it answers me nothing.

But don't die
Stay with me in the same world
or I'm lost and desolate.
For here the light and dark
That touches you touches me
That you are here at all
Delays my own death
An instant longer.

~Al Purdy