pitt hats and pepsi

[diamond_ace 3,106]

Hey guys - I wrote a poem in memory of my dad. Many of you probably remember when he died a few years back and it hit me pretty hard. Given that it's been some time now, I felt like sharing this, but I'm not going to share it on FB because my mom and sister are on there and I don't want to impose a negative memory on them in a particular moment.

 

 

new experiences fade the old
no matter how vital the old might be
we don't get a choice
we just do new things and poof there it goes

 

parts of you fall away bit by bit
i try to remember the whole but am faced only with the half
the left hand falls, the right shoulder
the memory of yelling at me upstairs when i was younger

 

of picking me up from cross country practice
replaced by a hospital bed and series of tubes
54 is far too young and it wasn't even one
of the plethora of plagues you endured

 

it was a curveball from the east wedging into the brain
forming a puddle of bacteria and eating away slowly
who'd have thought your heart would stay intact
or your liver or your lungs yet something unforeseen

 

soon the memories will fade yet more
replaced by a skeleton wearing a pitt hat
with a full glass of pepsi tugging downward at the bones
watching ncis, talking about fixing the porsche

 

the jaw bones rattling, fading away again
faced with the half and the prospect of the none
ashes three parts body, two parts pepsi, one part ink
and that part housing the memories shrinking against my will

[JardyB10 4,834]

I'm sure I've said it before, but I'm sorry for your loss. I can't imagine how painful that must be. Always wishing you the best.

[gorlab 4,321]

i also love that piff