This is a poem dedicated to my cousin who just died last week.
I want to turn it in for a school report but i'm not sure if its appropriate.
What do you think?
Is it any good?
Danny
Tragedy slows down my world
Makes you realize the important things
The times we had together
Now I'm falling without any wings
All my work is pointless now
Everything I've done
Without you--pointless, worthless, hopeless
This I can't overcome
I'm overwhelmed with the things I could have done
I could have loved you more, I could have cared
Now all thats left of you
is the memories we once shared
But none of that seems important now
six feet under the ground
The memory of you overwhelms me
paralyzing my entire body
You were like a brother to me
My own flesh and blood
My mother always cared for you
like her first-born son
All the things you left behind
What about your daughter
Who will tell her the news
That she no longer has a father
Oh how I know the pain
of losing your father
The pain that never goes away
Pain that never falters
I pray that God remembers
Remembers like we do
All the things that you have done
yet all things you went through
I realize that now
You weren't loved as much as you deserved
All it took was an "I love you"
All it took were a few more words
A rough life
that you never asked for
I wish that you had better
You had more to live for
Brother
Father
Friend
Son
Why did you do it
What have you done
I wish you knew
All the people you left behind
I know that at least you can rest now
Not in a place unjust, unkind
Everyone loves you and misses you
Now that the only thing left is your memory
I can only hope to see you again
My beloved Danny
I want to turn it in for a school report but i'm not sure if its appropriate.
What do you think?
Is it any good?
Danny
Tragedy slows down my world
Makes you realize the important things
The times we had together
Now I'm falling without any wings
All my work is pointless now
Everything I've done
Without you--pointless, worthless, hopeless
This I can't overcome
I'm overwhelmed with the things I could have done
I could have loved you more, I could have cared
Now all thats left of you
is the memories we once shared
But none of that seems important now
six feet under the ground
The memory of you overwhelms me
paralyzing my entire body
You were like a brother to me
My own flesh and blood
My mother always cared for you
like her first-born son
All the things you left behind
What about your daughter
Who will tell her the news
That she no longer has a father
Oh how I know the pain
of losing your father
The pain that never goes away
Pain that never falters
I pray that God remembers
Remembers like we do
All the things that you have done
yet all things you went through
I realize that now
You weren't loved as much as you deserved
All it took was an "I love you"
All it took were a few more words
A rough life
that you never asked for
I wish that you had better
You had more to live for
Brother
Father
Friend
Son
Why did you do it
What have you done
I wish you knew
All the people you left behind
I know that at least you can rest now
Not in a place unjust, unkind
Everyone loves you and misses you
Now that the only thing left is your memory
I can only hope to see you again
My beloved Danny