My Angels Sweet - Though You Are Gone
My Angels Sweet
(Though You Are Gone)
By Shawn H. Hall
Dedicated to my sweet, precious angels, Hannah (Monkey) 6, Kenneth (Peanut) 5, and Danielle (Munchkin) 2. I pray that I will see your sweet faces again one day. My life has no more meaning without you sweet angels in it. Oh, GOD! How I wish that I could hug each of you just one more time! I would never let you go! With all of my tears, all of my anguish, and all of my love, forever, Daddy.
My Angels sweet, though you are gone,
The sun still shines, the winds still blow.
Though Heaven deemed that you move on--
The King outranked this lowly pawn--
And though the seasons move by slow,
Not sun nor rain nor any change
Will cause my heart to wander so
That memories will rearrange
Your sweet young faces all aglow.
Your tinkling laughter warmed my soul.
Your smiles could light a gloomy day.
But now my soul's an empty hole,
And now, though it fulfills no role--
Except to make my body stay
Where Hell may find it any hour--
Then demons dark will hold in sway,
Shattered dreams that seethe with power,
Before they carry me away.
My three sweet Angels now are passed
To pastures greener than this plane,
And though I hold their mem'ries fast,
They warp from Satan's fiery blast,
While Heaven's tears now fall as rain.
Yet Heaven, Hell; it matters not.
My grief will not assuage my pain.
And to this life, what I have brought,
It matters little--all for naught--
As Demons, Angels now are caught
Inside my train of deadly thought,
And neither one shall ever gain
My torn soul; a bloody stain,
As this is what my grief has wrought;
A wasteland filled with sweat and strain
While looking once more to regain
What sin and sloth have never bought;
A moment's worth of might and main
To bring my Angels home to reign
O'er one small space that time forgot:
A Grassy, flowered, fun-filled lot.
Where I will share with them our past
And where our love will ever last.
Copyright © Shawn Hall | Year Posted 2014
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