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

It’s in the Eyes
By Joeysguy

We can see different feelings in someone’s eyes
The pain and tears when a loved one dies

What’s to follow
Is sadness and sorrow

Not far behind are the fears
To go on alone for the following years

It takes time before we see happy eyes
A smile or laugh could be the mouth lies

It’s Just A Band-Aid  

By Joeysguy

When I was small my mother had some tricks
She would say the band-aid was a quick fix

Using a band-aid to cover a scrape or cut
Keeping out the dirt and any ****

Some places I have trouble putting a band-aid on  
It’s only me, my wife is gone                                    

Recently a wasp had stung me
Confused, I looked to my wife to help me

I then remembered she is not here
Not sure of what to do gave me a little scare

I can put a band-aid on anywhere in front of me
I can’t put it on my back a place I can’t see

My wife wanted a band-aid on my mouth
Even my daughters say I have a bigmouth

I wish my mom taught me her tricks
I would swallow a band-aid, my heart needs a fix

Joey’s guy
By Joeysguy

In 1962 my girlfriend changed my life
When she said I do and became my wife

My girlfriend taught me how to kiss
From girlfriend to wife to someone I terribly miss

We were married and brought together
I wanted us to be as one forever

We had two daughters and a son
After three children we were done

At times we use to take the kids to the park
It was something we didn’t do after dark

My wife passed without a goodbye
And to this day I could still cry
  
I look at pictures of my wife
That’s all I will have for the rest of my life

I can remember kissing her hand
Now on a neck chain I kiss her wedding band

She raised her family with love
Now my wife is in heaven above
  
At times my poems make me cry
They help me to be Joey’s guy

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

Keno Baby
By Joeysguy

My wife and I liked to play keno
Just about every weekend we would go

She was pregnant and due any day
Over an hour’s ride each way

Other players would say  
Your going to give birth today
  
We got home and went to bed
It’s that time my wife had said

Her water broke on the floor
Our first was born in nineteen sixty four  

It was almost a maybe
That we had a keno baby

Little Dog
By Joeysguy

This last Mothers day
My wife’s little dog passed away

Holly was my wife’s little love
Both now are in the heaven above

Holly did not like the cold
Poor Holly only ten years old

I miss my wife so much
I also miss that little dog’s touch

I just had to adopt a little dog for me
This little dog named Maggie

Love List
By Joeysguy

This is my love list
Joey was my wife
She is gone and very much missed

My daughter Barbara was our first one
Then came my son James
My daughter Patricia the third one

Grandchildren are Megan and Alexandra
Boys are Nickolas and Connor
Back to girls Jacquelyn and Samantha

My kids in law I almost missed
Robert, Christopher and Suzanna
And my dog finished the list

Marriage
By Joeysguy
Why should a man marry
Not only your name will she carry
What about the love she has for you
You must have feelings for her to  
You can really make her heart sing
Ask her to marry you and give her a ring
It has to make you feel good that she will be in your heart
When she says yes and a new family you will start
You set the date then comes that day
Now that day is here and the words I do you both say
Now that she has your last name
Your wife and your kids will share something the same
Some days will probably go by
You will argue and you will make her cry
Stop to think don’t let bad words tear your love apart
It may just take a few kind words and kiss for a new start
In years to come you will feel good
The way a father and husband should
You will be proud your last name will carry on  
Your kids will be grown, get married and move on
Your kids will still call you dad
That’s a great feeling a great family is never bad
Don’t let things and time go by to fast
Try to make everything and every minute last

Message to God
By Joeysguy

Something I would like to ask
For you this would be a small task

My wife is in heaven with you
That’s something you already knew

Years ago when I met my wife
She’s been the everything in my life

And now that where apart
I wish to say something from my heart
                                  
Would you let her know
That we all miss her so

Would you give her all my love
Till you take me up above

Michael
By Joeysguy

As a young boy I was built like a ball
Then at age 16 I grew to over 6 foot tall

Never finishing high school, I went to work
To help my mother, I worked as a clerk

I met the girl who would be in my life
Kiss me, love me and be my wife

From that first day that I lost my wife
It’s taken so much from my life

Some of my poems might be a little long
Some words I might have spelled wrong

I don’t think of myself as a poet
I don’t understand poems, I know it

Reading a poem and trying to understand
It’s hard for me, it’s much a demand

My poems come from my head and my heart
The love for my wife does stand apart

I read and post my poems for people to see
To tell of the feelings that are in me

My poems are fact and true
I appreciate your listening and I thank you

Moments in Time
By Joeysguy

For more than half of my life
I was married to my darling wife

Truly my first love was she    
I hope she still loves me

I loved and protected my wife
So much I would give my life

Some special moments we did share
It’s the time and emptiness now I fear

Right from the start
I was hers she owned my heart

In my daughters I can see my wife
But it doesn’t fill the void in my life

The painful days of December will be here
Her birthday and Christmas they share

January was the month she passed
How long will this pain last

Mothers                                                        
By Joeysguy
Mothers are a gift from the heavens above
  All through life they share their love
Mothers are the greatest creation
  They are what they are and need no explanation
From that first day starts a new life of love and joy
  They do anything to protect their baby girl or boy
They walk around as proud as can be
  They want to shout look I have a life inside me
Bigger and bigger she gets as time goes by
  Some suffer from pain and they cry
There love is so strong that they can bear the pain
  They suffer and pray that it all was not in vain
The greatest day on earth has come
  With some pain and pushing you are now a mom
You have suffered a lot and sometimes cried
  But now it is over and with a baby at your side
Now the easy part is over and your baby is here to stay
  You become a doctor a lawyer different people everyday
You protect and raise them through the years
  With love joy and even some tears
Now their grown and its time for them to leave
  You think back over the years while you grieve
Even thou they are gone and hardly call you
  They may not write but they do love you
Mothers belong on a pedestal with the word rare
  From the first day till the last they always care
Mothers are and will always be
  The greatest any world will ever see
When it is her time to go to heavens place
  She is sent back to earth wearing a new face
Over and over a mother they be
  To give love to their new baby
Back and forth from heaven to earth
  With love and joy and giving birth
Mothers are not one of a kind
  They are all the same with love in mind
With love in there heart from heaven they come
  Before you move on let me say I love you mom

My Blue Eyed Blonde
By Joeysguy

I’m just a man with a broken heart trying to show love
To the woman who I lost and is now in the heaven above

I think back when we met we shared a kiss
Now the days go by I think of my wife who I terribly miss

Life seems so very unfair
I was older but it’s my wife who is not here

All the years we were married I gave her all that I could
I gave her all my love and my heart the way a husband should

When special days and some holidays come near
It hurts more on these days that my wife and I no longer share

I wish I could remember everything from my past
I would burn my wife in my mind so it all would last

Over and over as the days go by
I try to get by with out a cry

Joey was my wife and now she is gone
I am finding my days so very hard to move on

On our wedding day some words I had said
I promised to always love her and with this ring I thee wed

We have two girls Barbara and Patricia are their names
Also their is our son his name is James

My wife was a tall and slender blonde with blue eyes
She loved me and I guess she was very wise

My Empty Eyes
By Joeysguy

Years back living in a full house
With kids, dogs and a spouse

One daughter even had white rats
My other daughter with her cats

You had to be careful so as not to fall
All over would be toys, maybe a ball

At times I would help to put the kids to bed at night
Giving them a kiss before turning down the light

I would stand the kids against the wall
Placing marks to show them getting tall  

The kids were getting older and will move out one day
That day came and they did move away

It became hard for my wife to walk or stand
It would help when I would take her hand

One day my wife had passed on
My last two pets are also gone

I never thought I would lose my spouse
Now it’s emptiness that fills my house

Each time I enter a room
They are filled with gloom

Empty is a space in the bed we did share
Empty at the kitchen table is her chair

We were bound together by the words, I do
With wedding bands and saying I love you

My eyes are empty and I can’t see
I can’t see my wife in front of me

My Memories
By Joeysguy

I was thinking of buying a new house
So I’m here with my son and his spouse

Sitting outback looking up to the sky
Hoping to see something go bye  

Wishing for a sign to see
Something from my wife to me

To move into an empty and cold house
I would leave behind memories of my spouse

I don’t want to leave those memories behind
More memories in the house then in my mind
              
When my kids were small
They would play and mark up a wall

I see memories on every wall
Where my wife painted over marks from a ball

A memory in every room
Some good some with a little gloom

It’s something that will always be
Even the gloom is a memory to me

My Old Boy
By Joeysguy

I’ve written about a little dog that I had
But little Maggie was really bad

I had to return her, she was to much for me
All over the house she would **** and ***  

So again it was just my old Bandit and me
His health getting worse even just to see

After I lost my wife
He helped me go on with my life

Then I had to face that tearful day
To put him down was so hard to say

I still look for him in his usual place
The rooms are empty I don’t see his face

More pain and more tears
It hasn’t stopped these past years

He gave me loyalty and love
Now he’s also in heaven above

MY WIFE MY PRIZE
By Joeysguy

I asked my girl to be my wife
To be mine the rest of our life

Her father gave away the bride
Her mother was happy but cried

I took the oath of marriage that day
To love her in every way

On our wedding day I said I do
Forever I want to be with you

Not many men love the same wife
I did for more than half our life

For over 50 years we were together
She’s gone but I’ll be her guy forever  

Looking at my wife and into her eyes
What I see is my wife my prize

With all the love I had for my wife
It hurts that she was taken out of my life

I have to believe in an afterlife
A place where I can rejoin my wife

I want to believe so much
To again see and feel her touch

Old School
By joeysguy

I remember lessons from the old school
It was a code an unwritten rule

As a male I would get to my feet
To give the elderly or a woman the seat

When taking a girl out for a day
As the guy I would always pay

Music was understood and had meaning
A lot of songs today sounds like screaming

Entertainers wore costumes or dressed in clothes
Today so much body they expose

You didn’t always have to lock doors
No fences had to protect stores

As a young kid I played outside
Strangers didn’t bother us, we didn’t have to hide

We would hangout till late hours of night
When older we hung out even till daylight

Women could sit outside late and talk
It was safe to take a late night walk

Any time was safe to go stroll in the park
Try doing that now in the dark

People now wear pants down almost to the knees
It’s ugly, pick them up please

What happened to those good old days
Time passes and kids go through a craze

Our Christmas tree
By Joeysguy

After we were married and Christmas would come near,
We would go buy a tree and my wife would dress it with care.

All through the holidays it stood straight and tall,
After the holidays I would drag it out through the hall.

I would drag it through the hall and down the stairs,
***** and lights breaking all the way, but who cares.

My wife would ask, are you crazy,
I would say no this way was easy and I was just lazy.

Year after year buying a new tree, new lights and *****,
End of the season and there I go dragging the tree through the halls.

When we moved to our own home we had a tree for Christmas day,
End of the season I opened the door and out went the tree the same old way.

My wife and daughters said I was crazy and no more,
No more will a tree go out the door.

The next year there was a fake tree on Christmas day,
After the season they told me to keep away.

The family would say how crazy and about the extra money,
My only thought that it was funny.

So every Christmas stands a fake tree,
No more trees out the door by me.

Our First Pregnancy
By Joeysguy

When we were young and before she was my wife
I didn’t know she was going to be the love of my life

I miss those special times that we had
I miss all the times so very bad

I don’t know where I found a talent to write poems late in my life
It must come from the woman I loved who was my wife

Over the years we have had arguments and called each other names
Like little kids playing silly games

In a picture of my wife the sun shines in her hair and makes it glow
To me she looks like my loving angel with a halo

Thinking back on our first pregnancy
That was hard for my wife and me

Some times she had morning sickness
At times she had made a mess

In that nine month period of time
She had fallen for the third time

My heart was divided in quarters
My wife my son and my two daughters

I think my heart will become whole
That day that my wife takes my soul

Paper Rose
By Joeysguy

Many years ago when I was short of money
Thinking of a gift to give my honey    

Something inexpensive, like a single rose
With the meaning and feeling that it shows

Just a couple of dollars I think that would be okay
As a gift from my heart for that day

In that single rose, that I bought
With my love being the thought
    
I have roses growing outside my house
In the memory and love to my spouse

From some of the thorns that are on the stems
My blood was drawn and looks like little gems

I need a rose that is so very light
It has to be special for a flight

I can now give her this kind of a rose
With all my love that it shows

The rose has to be without a thorn
So the balloon doesn’t burst while airborne  

Higher and higher to my wife it goes
A balloon that carries, a paper rose

Peter Pan Envy
By Joeysguy

I envy Peter Pan
He never get’s old as a man

He can fly back and forth to never-never land
To his lost boys a merry band

If I had Tinkerbelle’s fairy dust and could fly
I would go up and up into the sky

I would fly up to my wife who’s in heaven
And take her back to nineteen fifty-seven

The fifties were a great time in life
It was when I met my future wife

Play Ball (Softball)
By Joeysguy

My daughters use to play softball
I wish I could have been to them all

Since my daughters don’t play anymore
I don’t have a team to cheer for

I do watch some games on the TV
The girls have lots of great energy  

When the girls are in the dugout
You can hear them cheer and shout

You can hear them chant and scream
To win a world series starts as a dream

For one team to lose comes sorrow
And they may not have a game tomorrow

I’ve seen many girls being sad
I can’t recall any of them getting mad

Lots of girls playing softball
Good luck to them all

Please
By Joeysguy

What the word please means to me
It’s a word I hardly ever use
It’s a word that weakens me

To me I feel the word relates to beg
I don’t know which would be harder
To say please or eat a raw egg

I used the word very few times in my life
I used it more times in one day
when I asked to please save my wife

Precious Things
By Joeysguy

Finding out a father I was to become
My love, my wife to become a mom

In time being a father of three
They would be precious things to me

As a father I gave it my best
Protecting them in our little nest

Now my little three are all grown
They have precious things of their own

The most precious things in life
Your family, your children, your wife

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

Reflections
By Joeysguy
When my kids were young they would run around
You always new where they were just by the sound

Someone would bring home a dog or a cat
One daughter even had a pet rat

With everything  my wife was at my side
Until that horrible day that she died

I’m looking at a picture, that was our wedding day
I can’t remember all of the words we did say

This picture shows our marriage sealed with a kiss
My tears are a reminder, I will never again have this

With my wife gone and my kids grown
My dogs are gone and I live alone

I wish my wife walked through the door
So I could hold her and kiss her once more

In my house I’m always seeing a figure
It can look smaller but it’s never bigger

I see this figure in every room
It looks at me with the face of gloom

I’ve seen this figure just a short time in my life
Tell me figure are you my wife

The figure speaks and I know this voice
Figure your not my choice

The figure is in everything that has a shine
It’s a reflection that is always mine

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…..

Scars of the Heart
By Joeysguy

At times it seems like no relief
We can suffer long with our grief

Will the heart ever mend
Will the pain ever end

The tears come from my eyes
But it’s my heart that cries

People ask how am I
They would know if they see me cry

From when my wife passed
I have scars of the heart that will last

My heart may heal after time goes by
The scars of my heart will be till I die

Sorry
By Joeysguy

Sorry for the arguments we’ve had
Especially those that were bad

Sorry for things asked of me
When you did something I couldn’t see

Sorry that I always seem mad
Losing my wife I’m angry and sad

Sorry I may hear things in the wrong way
And how something wrong I might say

Sorry to know my children are grown
Because I have to let them be on their own

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

Thank You
By Joeysguy

I write my poems but I’m not a poet
I don’t understand poems and I know it

Here I am reading and trying to understand
This is hard for me, it’s much a demand

Most all my poems come from my heart
The poems are with love and stand apart

I post my poems for people to see
I know your comments are to help me

My past poems are fact and true
I appreciate your help and thank you

That Girl
By Joeysguy

That girl I loved from the start
She took over my heart

That girl was my lover
She was also my kids mother

That girl was my best friend
Right to the very end

That girl I love and adore
She is not here anymore  

That girl was my wife
And will be for the rest of my life

The Cycle of My Life
By Joeysguy

The Cycle of my Life
January fifth was the month I lost my wife

February brings Valentines Day
A gift with love I did say.

April seventh is our Anniversary  
The month and day she married me.

April brings Easter Sunday
May brings Mother’s Day.

October thirty first is Halloween
When kids would dress in costumes to be seen.

November brings Thanksgiving and is the fourth Thursday
December eighteen is my wife’s birthday.

December twenty fifth is Christmas Day
It was my wife’s favorite holiday.

January first is New Years
Just another day of maybe no tears.

It starts all over again my cycle of life
Over and over again the pain without my wife.

The Honey To Do List
By joeysguy

Honey here is your to do list
It was written after that first time we kissed

I know you are that special one
Who would follow the list till it’s done

Follow the list in it’s order
Do not change, do not alter

The first thing you will do
Is to ask me to marry you

You will love me as I love you
With the promise of a love that’s true

You will give me children, maybe two
I know we will be loved by you

Be a good husband to your wife
You will keep us together for life

If I should be the first to die
Make it short if you do cry

Go on with the rest of your life
Remember me as your wife

With a new honey to do list I’m waiting here
Don’t hurry, I love you dear

The Kiss
By Joeysguy

Meeting for the first time under the moonlight
I leaned over and kissed her on that summer night

That kiss was in a loving way
It led to us seeing each other every day

That was how our feelings were started
I went into the relationship wholehearted

Skipping past the years that have gone by
To a time of now that brings a tear from my eye  

I saw her when I looked through the door
She was passed out on the bathroom floor

I grabbed the phone and called nine one one
The operator told me what must be done

I was giving her mouth to mouth with my breath  
Trying to revive her and hoping to keep her from death

The ambulance came and took her away
At the hospital she died that very day

I was with her as she laid on the table
I was broken and very unstable

It was so hard leaving her and walking away
The last kiss, I think it was that day

The Magic in Ones Life
By joeys guy

I believe people have some magic in their life
Mine started with meeting my wife

I would feel it just by her touching me
I felt how much more that we could be

That magic from my wife
Bringing three children into my life

I could see magic just looking into their eyes
So open and bright and full of surprise

Magic could be the day when they first crawl
Such amazement when they are so small

Magic can be when they try to talk
Or that stumble when trying to walk

Looking at pictures of what I had
Still a husband and father but sad

My wife’s loss was tragic
I lost her with her magic

If I could bring my wife’s magic to light
I would bring her into my dreams every night

Life does not have a happily ever after
I believe it’s in the life after

Everything I felt in her kiss
The magic through my body I miss

The feelings I use to feel
Looking back the magic was real

I don’t see much to the rest of my life
I lost something precious, my wife

Times Change                            
By Joeysguy

I was born in the year 1940
Growing up I was a little naughty

I was a little scared
To really be bad

We started to see many strangers
People reacted to different dangers  

My mother and her friends stopped the late night talks
People were being more careful during walks

My mother and friends started locking doors
We seen protective gates going up on the local stores

My family and I lived in New York City
Things became worse and not to pretty

Garbage thrown in the yard and the street
By people that were not clean or neat

Women could not walk by men without words
Men would make sounds like chirping birds

After a few years of worry for my kids and wife
We moved from the city and started a new life

To My Joey and Children
By Joeysguy

I have made many mistakes in my life
Except the day I took a wife

From that came the pitter patter of six little feet
That truly made my life complete

The days I hate are your birthdays I believe
Because you get older and so you will leave

I wish time would stop on Christmas day
So you would stay small to play and play

Before the day comes when you say goodbye
I hope that everything you want I could buy

As far as things for my wife
No hurry we have all of our life

The one thing I have plenty of
Is my wife and children I truly love

Love is the only thing I want from you
Forever and ever you will love me true

As a husband and father I’m not the best
But how do I compare to all the rest

If anything should ever break us up
I think I would shatter like a cup

You all have a piece of my heart
Please, please do not tear it apart

I do not know what else to say
Except god protect my family everyday

To My Joey  Happy Anniversary
By Joeysguy

On April 7th these words were said do I take this woman to be my wife
I said yes for the rest of my life

There was a time when our love was lost awhile
You gave me a daughter I gave you a smile

Some years went by and now our family totals to five
We can see and feel our love thrive

Our marriage has not always been the best
But I like to think it’s a love nest

The past years were difficult and have not been good
But the next hundred years will be better as they should

With all the love I have for you
A good life I must, I have too

I have not forget our little three
Before they leave I hope better things they will see

Patience understanding and love I need
To make all my dreams succeed

My love for you is honest and true
Is it the same with you too

Joey my love and Joey my wife
For all our years you were and are my life

In a hundred years when we depart
In heaven another love we will start

My love for you is plain to see
Your my love happy anniversary

Touch no More
By Joeysguy

When I was young at age seventeen
I met my future wife who was nearly sixteen

When I was age twenty one wild and free
I ask my love if she would marry me

Not thinking how fast time passes by
We got older and older my wife and I

Thinking back I did not know
How much my love for my wife would grow

On January fifth two thousand and nine
I lost my wife I thought would always be mine

You find out how time flies
When someone you love dies

We were together fifty plus years
Now my eyes are filled with tears

In a poem written by my wife                        
Something she had written early in life

She wrote, in her dreams our lips have met
You wait honey I will hook you yet

When I sit and look at pictures of my wife
How pretty she was and how short was her life

It is over a year that my wife is gone
People say I must move on

My children are all now grown
They have children of their own

I loved my wife so very much
And now I will no longer feel her touch

Treasure of Man
By Joeysguy

Every man has the chance
To find love and romance

Having a family with your wife
That’s a treasure of a man’s life

Mine had blue eyes and blonde hair
A beautiful face with a smile to share

The three children we had
Made me proud to be a husband and a dad

Every man’s treasure is in front of his face
Make a good life at a slow pace

I take a deep breath and let out a sigh
To think how lucky was 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

Wedding Band  
By Joeysguy

JoAnn was the birth name of my wife
To me Joey was her name for a lot of our married life

One of the best things anyone could ask for in life
Is to have a good and loving wife

When it comes time for me to pass no matter day or night
I hope and pray that my wife will be my guiding light

I did not complement my wife as much as I could of
But with all my heart I gave her my love  

My wife is in heaven watching over our family
Hoping we could be the best we could be

I am now living by myself and on my own
I have my dogs and my family but I feel alone

I never thought I knew how bad pain could ever be
Until my wife died and left me

At times my wife lets me know she is near
She turns off the picture frame to let me know she is here    

On a chain around my neck I wear my wife’s wedding band
I also still wear mine on the finger of my left hand

To anyone who reads this poem do not let the time with your family go
Everything is gone before you know

Wedding Bands
By Joeysguy

I placed a ring on her left hand
A plain white gold wedding band

With all my love this ring is from me
I also wore a ring for people to see

Today the rings have become something more
They also tie us together for evermore  

Mine is still on my left hand
From my neck hangs her wedding band

I feel her in my heart and in my life
I still think of her as my wife

What Some Men Can’t See
By Joeysguy

For years it’s been said that love is blind
Probably meant with men in mind

Women are different in many ways
With some men their in a daze
  
All women have inner beauty of their own
And most of the time that beauty is shown  

Women are filled with loving care
Especially for children they love so dear

Some men can’t see beyond their nose
The love in the family that grows and grows

Which Way to Heaven
By Joeysguy

My wife accepted the little that we had
Even those times that were really bad

She raised our kids, cats, dogs and also me
So as my hero it’s my wife I see

She would do things that made her strain
But she kept quiet about some of her pain

We were together for many years
Now alone I try to hold back the tears

Some days are harder to move on
So much is missing, so much is gone

With love for my wife I would always stare
Now it’s only pictures that I have here

I find myself rubbing some pictures with my hand
Wishing, just wishing to feel her hand

Thinking about the rest of my life
Which way to heaven and my wife

I wish I could hear my wife say
I’m here, take my hand heaven is this way

Why
By Joeysguy

How would it be talking to God
Getting a response might be odd

I would ask, since you are the higher good
Why can’t you protect people as you could                  
                      
Children are so innocent and pure
Some sick with a disease, why can’t we get a cure

Some of the evil that men do
They yell and scream in the name of you

When any terror comes out of the night
They want to hurt, **** or just fight

Some only care about their belief
They care nothing about loss or grief

Why can’t you strike out the terror in ones mind
Before they can hurt the innocent, the kind

We lose loved ones to sickness or an end to their time
Why can’t you stop any terror before the crime

Why I go to bereavement groups
By Joeysguy

I had a loss in my life
I lost a mother and also a wife

It hurts so badly when people die and they are gone
I was told a bereavement group might help me to move on

We sit and we talk about our lost love
How we miss them and we know they’re in the heavens above

We all can come together because of the pain we all share
We can relate to each other with passion and how much we care

Talking about the past, which now is a memory in our life
Were not sure of our future that will be for the rest of our life

We now have large changes in our life
Someone may have lost a parent, a child, a sibling, a husband or a wife

It’s our group that knows our loss and our pain
At times our friends or family might think were not sane

Someone may say something that would bring us to smile
That’s something that happens every once in a while

We try to get by the sorrow
If not today then maybe tomorrow

Maybe after time and lots of tears
Just maybe we might find another love that cares