Poems and Stories

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Big Red's Gift

Big Red's Gift

We have been given a strange and wonderful gift.
 A gift we have cherished privately and even jealously.
The gift of being with your father for the last few months of his life,
Both good and bad,
I would never have wanted it any other way. 
I would never have wanted to miss a single second of contact with him. 
I am glad we were the last people he saw and heard on this earth.
It was truly a gift from God.

Tom
10/5/11