Letter After a Time
To : Grandpa Lee
This is a letter to someone important to me who died.
This is a letter to Grandpa Lee.
Here’s something I never told you while you were alive..
I never told you how much I appreciated you, and everything
you did for me. I never told you how sorry I was for the
hurtful words that I said.
Because I knew you were only trying,
sad to see my crying.
Many times, since you’ve been gone, I’ve thought about you.
I’ve thought about how much you loved your grandkids;
All fourteen of us.
There’s been five new additions to the family,
and I know you’d love them just as much.
Here’s what’s new in my life...
I have a boyfriend grandpa. He’s more like my husband.
We’re four months away from our two year mark.
I wish you were here to walk me down the aisle.
Grandpa guess what? I have tattoos, six of them!
I’m getting one in honor of you someday.
When I dream, sometimes I imagine...
That you’re still here. I imagine that you being gone,
is just a dream itself.
It’s amazing to look ahead in my life and think...
how much I’ve grown up, and
how much more growing I’ve got left.
I wish you could’ve been here to watch me grow up.
I love you grandpa, and I miss you too.
I’ll be with you again someday.
Promise.
(2014)
This poem is for my grandpa. I lost one of the most
important people in my life the day I lost him.
R.I.P.
