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Aimster
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0 posted 2006-05-30 01:34 PM


You lost your forever love
I see the sadness in your eyes
Though you shrugged it off
We both know it's only lies

An angel now
Watching from high above
How do you let one go
After twenty-three years of love?

They say that time heals all
I'm not so sure that's true
Because I've seen what loss can do to someone
I've seen what it's done to you

There's no way to go back
We must just get through the day
I wish that somehow
The pain could be swept away

We both know that it can't
Come to the realization that she is no longer here
As you recall the memories
I stop counting the tears

It's the memories that will carry you
That will help you see tomorrow
The memories of her are so good
I would bring her back to you...

If only I could
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For my Dad
I lost my Mom/He lost his wife of 23 years
She passed away 12 years ago and yet the pain is still as fresh as the day it happened...

For Him! My Daddy!


"When life gives you sorrow, may you experience the spirit of laughter"

© Copyright 2006 Amy Kennedy - All Rights Reserved
skyshine
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1 posted 2006-05-30 02:15 PM


Your dad is so lucky to hve you and your sisters, Amy, and to have the wonderful memories of your mother.

Oh, I just replied to another poem about your mom today, in the Archives, somewhere. Hugs.

~sky

I hope someday you get the chance to live like you were dying....
~Tim McGraw

Bodger
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2 posted 2006-05-30 02:18 PM


I relate to this but also I relate to my own family who wanted to control freak her last years of life, and I wasn't around.

When I was they changed the next of kin so I didn't exist as the daughters played the game of living from her and then taking everything.

Like vultures on a corpse the caretaker said to me, when I spoke to him years later.

I haven't changed my thoughts on them, but my mother always knew what was going to happen, and we spent a night together in which we talked.

Yes I can relate to this, but more, I can relate to the unsaid.

Dave

Aimster
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3 posted 2006-05-30 04:13 PM


Thank you both for your replies...

Dave,
I am sorry one for your loss but two that things ended up like that
Often times people control others and don't
even think about what that person might
have wanted.

I was fortunate (I guess) that my Mom passed quickly. She had a heart attack. One moment she was alive and helping me with high school homework, planning for prom etc and the next she was gone...

It hurts like hell and like you said there is SO MUCH that is unsaid...

"When life gives you sorrow, may you experience the spirit of laughter"

JL
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4 posted 2006-05-31 08:49 PM


Beautiful write!
I know this story except in the opposite.  My mom is living and my dad passed away seven years ago after 56 years of marriage.  Through WWII and the Korean War.  They had a lot of hard times together and that bond is still there.  My mom talks about him all the time.  It’s almost spooky how she can remember so much detail about their lives.

JL


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5 posted 2006-05-31 10:42 PM


Amy this touches deep
my mom passed 26 years ago and I really don't think my dad even thinks of her anymore

thank God for the ones that hang on to the memories

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