Hello Grandpa, it’s been a year
Since you were called home
Three hundred and sixty five days
Since you upped and gone
How is life there treating you
In the land of Paradise
I hope it’s peaceful there
In the heaven amongst the skies
Do you look down upon us
And see the tears in my eyes
That still leak and flow
In the depths of many nights
Are you watching over all of us
With your kind, small eyes
Like how you watched us all grow up
And saw new babies play and cry
My eyes still burn at the memory of you
But your memories, ours
Will live on in our hearts
In the millions and billions
Of our living hours
To come.
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In memoriam: 20 July 2008
