Another year gone by
Another candle on the cake
A distant friend remembered
A minute for memory's sake

Time or distance haven't healed
The pain I've managed to yield
Since your departure hurt is all I feel
I guess death is never an easy deal.

Another year gone by
Another card in the post
A distant feeling lingers
A minute for an absent host

Time or distance will not seal
This wound inside is far too real
Since you departed hurt was all I felt
I guess death was your hand to be dealt.

Time to make a toast;
To You we'll miss the most
We simply cannot fake
The pain left in your wake,
The truth that our hearts ache
And the fear that they may break
A message for your ghost;
Think of us on Heaven's coast.

Time or distance haven't healed
The pain we've managed to yield
Since your departure, Fate's not ‘sposta steal
What kind of fortune is death upon a wheel?

Copyright © 2008-2017 KF

When first I saw your ink on paper
It plucked me to do tender similar
I loved the way your thoughts did flow
It made my own words seed to sow

Brave and bold my thoughts you see
To try to be like greats the key
But when my ink well ran its course
Emily, my devoted force

Can I love you now in shadow?
My thoughts are past in sorrow
Just take it as the wind will blow
Handsome words that sometimes flow

Your memory will live on in me
And others too, as it should be
Thank you for the lovely words
Quivering flight like hummingbirds