I love you like I have loved no other.
You make me safe within your arm.
Make me forget how trust of others
Left me broken; brought me to harm.
My life with you - all I remember
Is warm and loving, sweet and pure.
A different place than where I came from.
My first time to be secure.
You gave me home, hearth, child and passion.
You did the best that you can do.
Then that bastard diabetes
Came and tore our world in two.
I watch you on your death bed, sweet one.
I see your wasted, fragile frame.
It hurts me places I can't fathom
To know that you don't know my name.
I would sing you a song of anguish
But I don't know where to start.
I know it's not your choice to leave me.
You will live forever in my heart
Author notes
01/15/1954 - 04/05/1993
Matthew Kinsey Jackson
I wrote this in tribute to help ME get through a hard time.
A contest entry
- Dedication by poetrysheartbreak.
450 points, ended November 5, 2007, 25 entries
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Comments
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Absolutely Amazing
This is a beautiful tribute. It is very sweet and loving, a really good way to remember your loved one, and sad because that's what losing them is, but not final, in my case. Your last line really got me, as did the entire last stanza. Very beautiful, I say again.
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Wow. How sweet and sad. Good work.
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The is one of the most powerful pieces I have ever read. The emotion that one feels while reading this is unreal. This is a wonderful expressive write.
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