It's hard to Let Go

On Christmas day before he died, I went home to visit my dad. The house was full of family, our mood was quite somber and sad. We drifted in and out the room, where he lay dying in his bed., Each of us sharing memories, saying the words that needed said. Those last days perhaps the hardest, as death became reality. We made the promise to ourselves, to hold on to his memories. We were grasping for any hope, all my brothers, sisters, and me. We had not yet convinced ourselves, it was time to let him be free. Be free to hunt that long coon hunt, that will never come to an end. To dance his jig among his friends, to lie beside his wife again. Goodbye my beloved father, in my heart you will always be. Place a kiss on my mother’s cheek, and tell her that it is from me.