Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[Rainbow Light]

I am hoping this is ok to bring through on here to the Forum for others to read:

I sit here alone, thinking, watching how the moon’s light glows.

Meditating upon the garden water there below,

I’ve only just begun to spend my life, to have some fun-
But as I think of all I’ve lost, the hurt hangs on; so slow to go.

I’m now full grown and called a man-but really, is that what I am?

My heart's so young, it feels like new-
To think I’m getting old makes me very blue.

Lord, Just let me laugh and be the clown I am.

Please give me dignity and grace-

So I can have the strength to face…

These final days that seems to race…

Let me have some time to do all I can
So facing death won’t be such a task.

Please Lord, thy will be done, that’s all I ask.

- Elvis Presley 1977

Psalms 38

But if Wanda or Maia would prefer me to take off, please to let me know and will delete!

[Blue Moon]

Reading that poem makes it clear to me that Elvis knew he was dying and that his months or days left were few. I'm just sad that he felt he had to keep so much of it to himself. He truly must have felt so alone. Thankfully he had his comfort from the Lord, but it still must have been hard for him to keep the severity of his ill health secret, even from many close to him.

[Wanda June Hill]

It is okay with me. I added the Psalms 38 which he had written below the verses. It lets you know where his heart was at that time. wjh

[Rainbow Light]

Glad it's ok with you to keep on here, I usually wouldn't copy things over from the website itself but felt it necessary, somehow, and appropriate at the time! Thank you for sharing with us, Wanda, and yes it does show where his heart was at the time, also agree with what Laurie says above, that rings very true.

[Wanda June Hill]

I read the interview with Nancy Rooks, the housekeeper again, must have scanned it too quickly the first time as this time I see where she said Elvis told her he didn't expect to live much past his mom's age if that long and they spoke about life after death etc:. She also said that he had an organ in his office-something I said but some of his guys were quick to say, no he didn't-it was a piano he had up there and they nearly "killed" themselves trying to haul it upstairs-I think maybe it was the thing he wanted up there and had to take out the windows to get it inside? I wouldn't swear to that, but that came to mind and maybe it was why they were so sure there was no organ. There was-he played it often and he recorded himself for my birthday playing that organ. So I know he had one up there! On the interview with Larry King Priscilla and he are in the kitchen area, facing the bar and area in what was a little breakfast room but held the tv screens for the cameras at the gate where Elvis could watch the people and see who was coming up. He also could do that from upstairs in his quarters and there was a way to talk to the people down there from the house-but that didn't always work well, I've heard. Anyway, she said "and those are his red phones-his phones were red-" That was nice to hear since he gave us a red telephone, had it installed and prepaid the monthly charge for 3 years! Long distance charges were billed to us and I sent them to him at an address used by him so those he wanted to hear from could by pass the fan mail stuff and not go to the Col.'s offices at all. He had quite a few people who knew that address and wrote to and sent him things there. In fact, he had two addresses for that purpose that I know about. I only had used one of them-and then he had me send the original tapes etc: to another-it was not the same as the one he used for mail etc:. This was a guy who was very secretive, very private and wanted his personal life separate from his public life in as many ways as he could have it. It makes me wonder how these guys can rationalize that they knew his every move, thought and deed. They sure didn't and he took great satisfaction in knowing that too. His maid knew him better than they did-she knew him as a human being, a young man who was intelligent, kind and long suffering in many ways and whose heart was broken severely by several of those he loved and called friends. She loved him, stingy daddy and all! wjh

[Amanda Viola]

It's so illustrative to have your comments, Wanda. You really bring me to the scenery of your friendship and that of Elvis' life.

Every little detail adds so much to the whole picture, like imagining Elvis thinking ways to keep his life private. What a healthy idea and behavior!

[Rainbow Light]

It's so illustrative to have your comments, Wanda. You really bring me to the scenery of your friendship and that of Elvis' life.

Every little detail adds so much to the whole picture, like imagining Elvis thinking ways to keep his life private. What a healthy idea and behavior!

AMEN!!