Remembering my cousin, one year later.
Cancer may have taken another earlier today
But with that thought there’s some things to say
Disease didn’t win, nor was there a defeat
Rather another daughter next to our Lord’s seat
Tonight is the night on earth we say good-bye
For many, the questions asked begin with why
Sometime this morning, she left us well before dawn
She bid farewell to the machines she depended on
She was my cousin, a friend I knew less as time passed
But, still my cousin, my friend, taken home so fast
As a kid she was there, a part of our family together
Memories we both shared that will last forever
Tonight she no longer needs that special bed
And there’s no more pain when she turns her head
Tonight her smile’s the brightest it could ever be
The strain in her eyes, gone, were she to look at me
Now her…
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