To the Memories of You

Images of you

Carved into my brain

Making me think

Everything is going to be okay

When reality hits

You’re gone

Those hands

That once held me as a baby

They’ve turned to ash

Your voice is but a distant memory

A sound that has now become extinct

Those memories I hold dear

They bring back tears

That I keep at bay

Instead I cry internally

My hands tremble

My chest aches

From the strain my heart

Is enduring

You’ll never know how much I miss you

How I wish you could see

How much I’ve grown

I’m now a mother

You’d have been a

Great Great Grandfather

It pains me to know that

They’ll never know such a great man

A man that has made me

Who I am today