A Legend Fades Away
A Legend Fades Away
Your skin went from peach to gray,
as life slipped slowly away.
A large frame breathing with labored breaths,
so still, in that hospitable bed you lay.
We use to sit and talk for hours,
before silence of death shut the door.
about things from the past and the present,
all I crave now is more.
A legend lay still as deeply I prayed,
Lord give me strength to stand.
The Lord is your Sheppard, I read,
hoping it would sooth the pain,
as I held your soft, cold hand
They placed your picture on a stand and tears streamed as they spoke,
It was one of the times I could not speak, not with the lump in my throat
Today we lay a legend down, a true child of God they said,
I wondered if in heaven, your Lord Savior you had already met.
Did you see the family, the ones you had mourned while you lived?
Did you watch as we mourned now that you were gone?
Year one and two have gone by quick, some others have slipped away too,
The years go by, the memories fade but never my love for you.
You were the wisdom in my ears, the eyes that made me see
The life that my mom came from that eventually carried me,
You always smiled when life was great and taught to smile in trials too.
Each day after you were gone, I cried remembering everything about you.
I love you my lovely granny,
and my love will never fade.
In heaven I know we will meet,
where tears will be no more,
and we will laugh again.
27 June 2019
Copyright © Chantelle Smith | Year Posted 2019
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