With Pride
By Joeysguy
It’s so dark in here, it must be night  
I see an opening, I can see some light

Why are these people pulling on me
I guess out there I should be

I’m upside down, you hit me and I cried
That hurt and left me teary-eyed

Who’s this lady you put me alongside
Who’s this man staring with so much pride

Are they someone that I should know
When they leave will I also go

This lady says her name is mom
She puts out her hands and wants me to come

The man is called dad  
They are so nice and never seem sad

Will this good feeling always last
Time has gone by and it seemed so fast

In the blink of an eye
I’ve learned what it is to cry

With little suffering and not much sound
Mom and dad are now in the ground

They said we are of one heart
Even in death we can never be apart

Now I look at this lady with our baby at her side
How beautiful, and I’m so full of pride

Remembering
By Joeysguy
I think I loved her from that first day we kissed
Now I try remembering all the things I had missed.
One day I said to my wife you know you’re hot
Her response back to me was, no, no I’m not.
I said yes you are, I know because you’re my wife
I love you darling more than life.
I guess we were lucky when she realized I was the right guy
She must have seen something when she looked in my eye.
Many times the kids had us challenge each other
I was always proud she was my kid’s mother.
Money or material items are things you can replace
Not time, I could have done more when we were face to face.
My kids will have the poems of my wife
They will remember she was my life.
I remember a few things from the 50’s
Then came marriage and children in the 60’s.  
Some funny and cute things my Joey use to do
They might not have been the same to you.
She would hold on to the phone booth and dance
I would focus on her like being in a trance.
I can’t change the passed it’s left back in life
I can only think and dream back of my wife.
I always had an addiction for my wife
I will be hooked to her the rest of my life.
Maybe writing my poems, I won’t forget so much
I’ll read them and hope to feel my wife’s touch.  
Some people ask about my poems, the how and why
Because I hope my wife will be remembered even after I…..

Weakness
By Joeysguy
I wish I had the power to turn back time
I would go back to the day when my wife became mine
If I could have a wish, just one
I would go back in time when I was married my age was twenty-one
If I had the chance to relive my life
I would do it again with my same wife
In a pocket next to my heart are pictures of my wife
I will probably carry them for the rest of my life
My girl and I were young when we first met in life
She grew up to be a woman and became my wife
On that day we married she had a sparkle in her eye
No one could be happier than I
We were standing there and she looked so pretty
I felt as if I won first prize in a lottery
I have become more sensitive in these last years
A movie a song even a thought can bring on tears
I miss that weakness and love that was in my wife
Now it’s my weakness trying to go on with my life
On that last day I had no time to tell her I love her, or to say good bye
I do find a lot of time for me to cry
When your married a long time you don’t realize the little you know in your life
I found out how much when I lost my wife
On mother’s day my wife’s dog had died
She was a family member and I cried
My wife is my past, my children my present I lost my future when I lost my wife
Not a day goes by that I don’t miss her in my life
I feel that I m honoring my wife
Writing poems about some of her life

Space For Me
By Joeysguy

I loved my wife and I still do with all my heart
Now that she is gone in my chest is missing a big part

My wife would get upset with me because at her I would stare
I would say to her because I love you and that shows how I care

Over the years she was my wife, my friend and my lover
It is so hard now and I will never love for another

When I lost my wife I lost so much
No more kisses no more holding hands no more will we touch

My wife is up in heaven above
I hope she can still feel all my love

When I see people kissing on TV
I see them as my wife and me

Without my wife my heart aches and I feel it burn
I kiss her pictures her poem and also her urn

In the urn are her ashes and also space for me
When I pass together again we will be

Everything I did was for my wife
She was one of the best things in my life

We had a place we liked to go to eat
Now when I go I only need one seat

Keep Them Safe
By Joeysguy

I was born in New York City
It wasn’t safe nor was it pretty

That’s where I spent my young adult life
I realized it wasn’t safe for my children or my wife

There was always that threat of danger
I didn’t want my family victimized by a stranger

I packed them up and sent them to a New Jersey town
We bought a house on a street that part of the name is brown

Life went well and my kids are now grown
All my kids now have a family and house of their own

Is It Me Or My Confusion  
By Joeysguy
I hope not to have many problems over the years
These could be just a few of my fears

One is not to forget my past
The tattoo of my wife’s name that should last

I might need to get another tattoo in my life
Explaining the name Joey wasn’t a guy but my wife

I wouldn’t want to forget all the foods I hate
And not being forced to give everything a taste

When I hear things that are said
I hope not to mix the meanings up in my head

One meaning that I have heard
Like the ******* is flipping the bird

Or with *** and a finger meaning they want some
If two people show the finger, is that a *******

At home everything is out of place
I wonder why I’m running out of space

In time I won’t be able to go up and down, I guess
That means I won’t need an in house GPS  

Until that day they put me on a shelf
I hope to be my pleasant self

Can I be careful of the things I say
My getting older is confusion everyday

Prints of Love
By Joeysguy

Loving someone from the start
Leaves an imprint in your heart

That imprint of someone you love
In your mind of someone who’s now up above

Maybe something that they left behind
Brings back memories in your mind

That someone who passed and left a mark
An imprint we can even see in the dark  

Maybe just something we found
It might just be a foot print on the ground

The memories of time that has passed by
It might make you tear up and even cry

Just a hand print on a wall
Might be a thought that you recall

From your memories of a time you knew
They always have meaning to you

Looking at a picture of your love and you
Leaving an imprint of that day you said I do

Could some imprints be from above
As a kiss to someone they love