Poetry

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AS I TRAVEL ACROSS THESE FIVE STATES
TO SEE YOU ONE LAST TIME
IN MY HEART I KNOW I'M LATE
SO MANY THOUGHTS RACE THROGH MY MIND

DAD OUR LIFES TOGETHER HAD MANY UPS AND DOWNS
SOME WERE VERY GOOD. SOME WERE VERY BAD
SO MANY SMILES BUT TO MANY FROWNS
SOME VERY HAPPY SOME VERY SAD

BUT THROGH IT ALL, WHEN NEEDED WE WERE THERE
LIKE A FATHER AND SON SHOULD BE
BUT THE HURT I FEEL NOW IS HARD TO BEAR
AND THIS I KNOW YOU CAN SEE

YOU'V BEEN IN PAIN FOR MANY YEARS
BUT WE'VE BEEN SO FAR APART
NOW IS NO TIME FOR SORROW AND TEARS
BUT YOUR PASSING HAS BROKEN MY HEART

THE HURT AND SHOCK HAS NOT SET IN
LIKE IT WILL IN DAYS TO COME
YOUR LIFE ON EARTH HAS COME TO AN END
AND THE LORDS WORK IS NOW DONE

FOR HE HAS TAKEN HIS SON HOME
I KNOW WITH ALL MY HEART
THAT YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN BE ALONE
EVEN WHILE WERE APART

YOU ARE WITH YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
AND THERE WATCHING OVER YOU TOO:
YOUR ALSO WITH YOUR BROTHER
WHO WENT TO HEAVEN BEFORE YOU

DAD JESUS WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU
SINCE YOU'V ASK HIM INTO YOUR HEART
AND WHEN JESUS COMES AND CALLS ME HOME
WE WILL NO LONGER BE APART

MICHAEL A FAULKNER

IN MEMORY OF
RAYMOND FAULKNER
08-18-1940
10-21-2002

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