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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
This one is for you my friend To heaven these wishes I send Was ten years ago since that day Blue skies turned to gray I'd seen you just the week before No idea we would talk no more I remember you were doing fine Everything seemed to fall into line Life was treating you grand Your dreams were written in the sand Oh how quickly they were washed away When you died that fateful day It really was not your fault When life came crashing to a halt The man in the semi had been drinking Who could know what he was thinking The light turned red he could not stop I wish he hadn't drunk a drop The truck was going too fast He hit you broadside with a blast An innocent life in a moment lost Your future was the cost You are not forgotten I want you to know So on your grave I place a single rose Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end. --Michael W. Smith |
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Jana Tovey Member
since 2000-05-30
Posts 257USA |
This is a lovely tribute. I knew a girl once who used to drink and drive. She didn't think anything of it until she ran three kids off the sidewalk one day as they walked home from school. She can't live with herself now. She was sick before this happened, now she's worse...she's a recluse and won't let anyone near her. |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Jana, Thank you for the ind words and sharing your friend's story. Drinking and driving just do not mix. My friend had her whole life ahead of her....only to have it taken away by a man who thought there was nothing wrong with drinking and driving a semi. Truly tragic. She was killed instantly...never had a chance. I hope that your friend learns from what she has done and comes to terms with it. Life is a terrible thing to waste. Lone Wolf Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end. --Michael W. Smith |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
My friend, you should be proud for bringing remembrance to someone's life. Kathleen indy31_99@yahoo.com |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Very tragic, I'm so sorry for your loss. Drinking and driving definitely do not mix. Denise |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Irish Rose: Thank you, my friend. I am...I am proud to have known her for her short time upon this earth. < !signature--> Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end. --Michael W. Smith [This message has been edited by Lone Wolf (edited 06-02-2000).] |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Denise....how'd you slip in there? Happy you did! Thank you and it is very tragic....hope someone can learn from this. Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end. --Michael W. Smith |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Excellent poem LW, a fitting tribute to your friend. . . it's hard when they go this way. . . Superb. . . ---------------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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Jeffrey Carter
since 2000-04-08
Posts 2367State of constant confusion! |
Lone Wolf, Very touching tribute to your friend. Very sad story indeed. I just reposted a poem on this subject if you want to take a look at it  Take care m'friend All my love, Jeffrey I lie awake in a world filled with dreams, but dreams can be so real when you don't know you're asleep |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Yes, very very sad... good poem LW. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
beautiful touching tribute LW, so tradgic, so much lost. heal with your writing my friend, take care, jm There are places inside our souls ... that have never been touched. There are places inside our hearts ... that need to be loved this much. ~Janet Marie~ "What the caterpillar calls the end ... The world calls a butterfly" ~Lao Tze Tao~ ~Butterflies are meant to be free~ |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
LoneWolf~ God, how you touched my heart with this. My youngest brother was killed due to the selfish negligence of a drunken driver. Mike had a wife, baby son and adopted daughter waiting for him at home that fatal July night. It broke our hearts to lose him and especially so early in his life and so tragically. I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend. My heart has cried for almost 20 years for the loss of my brother, Mike. The drinking drivers won't ever learn ... they are selfish moronic butt-holes who usually walk away without a scratch and play the martyr ... I have no sympathy for their plight and wish them nothing but sleepless tortured nights of remembering pain the way I remember losing my beloved brother. *HUGS* to you. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Lorraine Nisbet Member
since 2000-05-18
Posts 218Jersey City, NJ USA |
Lone Wolf, It's so sad and hard to lose an innocent in this manner. My little brother lost his daughter to a drunken garbage truck driver. Sandra was only 2 yrs. old, driving home with her grandmother. Both died instantly. The driver of the garbage truck had a couple of scratches. The crime of it all. They may be gone but not forgotten. You have my prayers. ~Lorraine |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
It can be hard to loss a loved in such a tragedy, my brother's best friend lost one of his brothers who was killed in a car crash, he was speeding and went off the road. A lovely tribute to your friend, I am sorry for the loss of your friend. ------------------------ "I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else"-Richey Edwards "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now for a shallow piece of dignity" Nicky Wire, A design for Life. manic street preachers "Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany Culture, alienation, boredom and despair" |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Sven....thank you and yes, it is very hard when they go that way. Jeffrey....truly sad. I checked out your poem....sad also my friend. Poet deVine....thank you. JM....an awful lot was lost in this senseless tragedy. Thank you and healing is why I write, my friend. Marge....I am so sorry for the loss of your younger brother, my friend. Sounds like Mike had a lot to live for and a family that loved and misses him very much. That is so sad to hear. After 10 years I still cry for the loss of my friend. She was the one who deserved to live, but unfortunately the idiot who killed her walked away without a scratch on him. I have no sympathy for them either and hope he has had his share of sleepless nights living with the guilt of taking an innocent life from this earth in such a needless selfish way. My heart goes out to you, Marge. *HUGS* back to you!! Lorainne....so sorry to hear of the loss of your niece and her grandmother. That is so sad and tragic. I know I will never forget my friend though she is gone. Thank you for the prayers....know you have mine as well. Brian....Thank you for the kind words. I am sorry to hear of your brother's friends loss. I guess I will never understand why these people make such ill thought decisions. Perhaps Marge is right and they will never learn....guess we can only hope they do. Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end. --Michael W. Smith |
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