This is a submission for Kevin’s No Theme Thursday.

It’s hard sometimes to know you’re not here

Even in my dreams, I can still feel you near

Looking up to the sky, I know you’re flying free

Your spirit in my heart for all of eternity

To smell your rose garden for a moment again

To see you once more, I’m always asking when

I miss your voice, your love, your smile

I know you’re near, I wish you’d stay a while

Listening to you deeper, you say I shouldn’t be mad

When the month of July always makes me sad

A lump in my throat, a pang in my heart

I long for the time when we’ll never be apart

That song on the radio reminds me of you

I listen to that tune whenever I’m feeling blue

Life on this Earth was never easy for you

A peacekeeper you were, so loving and true

I don’t know where I’d be without your love

Looking up, I know you’re smiling from above

Your soul deserved better, no doubt about that

In pain on my knees, begging you to come back

I remember your blue eyes on that final night

Shining so brightly, yet ready for the light

You left my heart in this empty void all alone

But it was time for your soul to travel back home

Among clouds and stars, you’re way up high

Where you’ve always belonged, with the angels in the Sky

©️ Laura Bennett

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November 9th, 1926 – July 21st, 2016.