For my Grandmother

Submitted by Clare Marie on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 23:05

**Written and dedicated to my grandma in the month of her death, September 2008.....We were very, very close.**

 

I was alone

And yet not alone

Because thoughts

Of you

Were with me

I sang

The last song

I ever sang to you

And it ripped my heart

Like claws

I let thoughts

Of you

Fill my head

Because then I lived

Those moments

Over again

And again

I heard your laugh

Saw your smile

And I cried

I wished I could grab you

And pull you

Bring you back with my tears

I wanted to feel your arms

Around me

Holding me close

Because you loved me so

And I love you

More

And more

Each day

Even though you're gone

Author's age when written
15
Genre
Poetry
Tags
life
love
death
memories
family
pain
loneliness
grandparents
grandmother

Comments

Bridget

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 01:45

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Oh, so sweet.  I'm sorry about your grandmother, Clare.

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question." - Harun Yahya

Mairead

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 01:49

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This was very beautiful. My favortie part....well actually I can't even find a favorite part, it was all just so good. I loved how it flowed. A wonderful mix of forlorn and sublime. One of the best parts I think was this:

"I sang

The last song

I ever sang to you

And it ripped my heart

Like claws

I let thoughts

Of you

Fill my head

Because then I lived

Those moments

Over again

And again."

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"Sweet is the love that never knew a wound, but deeper that which died and rose again." - Mother Mary Francis

E

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 19:05

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A lovely poem. It brings back memories of when my grandmother passed in August of 2005. I was close to her, too. I'm really sorry.

"You were not meant to fit into a shallow box built by someone else." -J. Raymond

Elizabeth

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 22:55

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This was full of the love in your heart, Clare.... it was lovely.....

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The Holy Spirit is the quiet guest of our soul." -St. Augustine

Hannah W.

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 02:55

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This is lovely, and it really resonates in the heart... Simple and beautiful.

Clare Marie

Mon, 10/19/2009 - 01:38

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Thanks, guys. :)

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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." -Bilbo Baggins [The Lord of the Rings]