Your number’s still in my phone
Though I can never call
A million things to tell you
And you can’t answer at all
I see you in the mirror
A bit more every day
Still trying to make you proud
Though you’ve gone away
When I go home now
It mostly looks the same
But it feels more like a tomb
As memories echo all the pain
You’ve been gone so long now
Though it feels like yesterday
Still learning to say goodbye
And still don’t know what to say
I passed the place you died today
And it scattered me like a grenade
Fragments of grief like shrapnel
That was left inside my brain
Sometimes I forget simple things
Or memories of the past
Yet the day you went is frozen
Every second to the last
I see you in a way
That you would surely hate
Lying cold in a hospital bed
That terrible final day
And so here I seek to remember
The way you were before
In your computer chair smiling
When the kids opened up the door
Jumping off rocks into a creek
Like you were still a teen
Generations jumped together
You, me and my son between
A brightly lit tree at Christmas
You digging presents out below
As excited as your grandchildren
Eyes filled with joyful glow
After swimming in the pool
Drip drying in the chair
Talking on the back porch
I still can feel you there
I remember our living room
Dappled in beams of sun
Listening to Dean and Robbins
Big Bad John and Running Gun
And if I listen closely
To those old country songs
I can almost hear you there
As you still sing along
You are not truly gone
As you live on in my heart
I’ll hold close the good things
And we will never be apart
Still I can’t help feeling sorrow
I see your picture and am sad
My goodness how I miss you
I’ll always love you Dad
This is a beautiful tribute. peace
Thanks for reading it.