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A Father’s Deep Waters

I was a stranger but he began to speak as we set in a shop it was with sorrowed heart he spoke

His daughter Ashley had returned from Albuquerque earlier in the year she had been there

After her father and mother divorced years before she chose to reconnect with her father it

Hadn’t taken a long time but a special someone entered her life a marriage date was set he

Asked her how did that move back here work out this was after the marriage took place in the

Beginning of May she told him I’m living the dream I always envisioned this was middle may at

The end of May he softly said we had her funeral in the same church she was married in blood

Clots moved to her lungs and suffocated her his beautiful Ashley was gone he continued to tell

Me that he visits her grave every weekend he installed lights that are always on dream felt foot

Falls evenly draw near the dark knight of death cut asunder their physical ties but her spirit is

Laden with heavenly mist she has the heavier spray of the crystal sea in her hair her face is

Grace filled she wears a bright glowing flowing gown it is hooded it has the finest texture that is

As immortal gold it embellishes her face her twenty three years are shown in startling detail

Birthdays of her family holidays every tender care that was shared is told by fetching silver

Moonlight slow motion reveals secret thoughts that were born in shadows that emerged with

Such power trees and their limbs and branches were drenched in tender reflection even the

Individual blades of grass spoke such rich history of magnificence and delight they ran up to the

Entry way of the home they shared when she skipped and ran and played when she grew tired

She would crawl up in daddy’s lap put her arms around his neck put her head against his

Shoulder and drift away listening to his assuring voice and shortly feel herself being gently laid

In her bed of dreams now the light of this world has been trimmed daddy still comes as he

Always has now more somber his voice but a whisper she too would be sad but she sees and

Hears the heavenly Fathers words and truths of a soon to be great reunion day for all who are

Separated will be united for ever in joyful peace and bliss we will be free to know each other

More than we ever could be in life she believes this passes to her father as he faithfully visits

Because she sees the beginning of a smile rise in his sad face before he leaves love never dies a

Treasure once created never diminishes only grows richer

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Dec 25, 2013
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