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sara_lou • 218 followers

5 years has gone so fast
Where has the time gone, when did it slip past?
I remember that day
So vivid like it was yesterday
That phone call from dad
The sense of a tone so sad
I remember standing at the funeral home
Not wanting to leave you all alone
Grandad I know not why you were taken
I sat there wishing you would just awaken
So as another year passes us by
I hold back the tears, refusing to sit and cry
As that was your last ask of us
"To live life...as we must"

RIP Grandad I love you xxx

#family-loss #general #grief #memory #poetry #remembrance

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