John Berryhill Poet Lyric

Taken Too Soon

As I grow order around me I see.
The next generation of our family.
I love them all without any doubt.
But there's one that was special that 
always stood out. 
.
He was my cousin named Mitchell 
O'Dell.
And all of our lives changed the day 
that he fell.
Life is short or so they say.
But never so short as the day he 
went away.

A loving and gentle, wonderful son.
Just beginning lifes journey at age 
twwnty-one.
Handsome and smart with his own 
sense of style.
How we wish he was still with us if 
even just for awhile.

A young man's whose presence 
would light up the room.
A young man whose life was taken 
too soon.
Some will say "it's. What God has 
planned."
They can say what they want, I still 
don't understand.

It makes no sense and I ask myself 
why?
What good comes if any when young 
people die?
Maybe to love more in some kind of 
way.
To treasure our lives and be thankful 
each day.

When I look up at stars when they 
come out at night
I pretend that one of them is him,
shinning ever so bright.
But still as I look up,  just past the 
moon.
It still breaks my heart that he was taken 
too soon.

JD Berryhill

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