Funeral Missing You Poems

Grief tears down the walls,
Built by scarred hearts,
Convincing walls, sturdy like the oak –
But not nearly as resilient when anguish trembles
In hearts who have never...

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Tick...
Time has moved on
but I’m standing still...
No matter where I go, I can never run away.
Gray, gray, gray, it’s all gray, everything, gray.
Tock...
They say you're...

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Saying Goodbye

I am bad about saying goodbye. 
I hate doing it. 
I don't want to do that, 
at all, ever!
It makes my heart heavy, 
my...

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Looking at you with saddened eyes
You lay in a death bed six feet under the ground
Even then I still feel you next to me
You embrace...

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She loved him; he loved her even more. 
The story begins with friendship and comes to a relationship! 

Her eyes were the world to him,...

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And if I die tomorrow 
Tell my friends I tried,
that I tried living my best
And sorry if I wasn't a good friend 

And if I...

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© Francis Maugo
That day when
I came into this life.
You embraced me.
You protected me
So nobody could hurt.

You showed me values.
Illustrations in life I would learn.
You trained...

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Sitting here lost in worlds within worlds
Watching things spin
Listening to graveyard voices
Of owls and bats…

On tombstones, I sit!
I see things that should not be.
Things that...

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The moment was silent, stillness
Covered my thoughts in melancholy
Quiet hope shimmering on the skies
Just stardust glimmers lighting the night
In gentle breaths of warming moonlight

Heartfelt loss...

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The funeral had been strange
No one knew grandpa the way we did
My cousin and I rolled our eyes
Trying to be aloof and grown
We were eighteen
...

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I never thanked you
Before you died
I didn't get a chance to see you
I'm haunted not by your memory
But the regrets living in my heart
And when...

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I was five, you, ten years older
And you had me straddling
 The saddle of your broad shoulders
You, charging like a stallion, around 
The suburban garden,...

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You have gone to another place
Far away, where I can’t possibly follow
A place of light, laughter and love
Joy that colors the thoughts in warm
Welcoming whispers...

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Mother


Every day reminds me of you,
Every breath defines you for me;

I dare not say,
I do have a mother;

For I can't share my pains,
With just any...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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