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Bye bye
September 2, 2014
You are beautiful
So graceful
Loving and caring
Not ever despairing
Full of hope
you make skies blue
My dear meemaw
I love you
You told me "bye bye"
That one last time
With tears in my eyes
I still wouldn't cry
Because I remember
Just what you want
To see your beloved
That you lost once
But you counted through the year
The months and the days
Oh I'm almost certain
Just to see his face
You still haven't left us
I know you are here
Because when I'm upset
I feel you stop my tears
You whisper to me
Just one last time
"Don't cry for me,
I love you, bye bye"
© Photo by Jessica R., Phoenix, AZ
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My peepaw passed of lung cancer the day before valentines, a few years ago. His wife, my meemaw, was then found with lung cancer no more than a year after. My last conversation with her on her bed the day she passed went like this
her:"bye"
me:"goodbye"
her: "bye bye"
Me: (chuckles) "bye bye meemaw"
her: "bye bye"
me: (getting sadder)"bye bye"
her: "bye bye"
me: "..."
my mother: "bye bye, but we aren't leaving yet we only just got here"
her: "bye bye"
then she closed her eyes and fell asleep... I wrote this for you kaye, you'll always be close to my heart.