Poetry On Odyssey: Has It Been Five Years?
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Poetry On Odyssey: Has It Been Five Years?

This poem was written on and for her birthday of April 23rd. Grandma, that day will never be quite the same. This year was hard.

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Poetry On Odyssey: Has It Been Five Years?
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This poem is dedicated to the loving memory that was and always will be Beverly Rose Wilson. My love is never over.


Has it really been five years?

It seems as if only several minutes have gone by,

It seems as if only I had time to blink one of my eyes

The feeling of yesterday fresh in my mind

As I held your hand, and laughed for a time

Has it really been five years?

It feels like only a moment has passed

And everything I ever hoped for came true with you around

Yesterday feels like an instant ago, and you were still safe and sound

Has it really been five years?

I wouldn’t have known

That was until I looked at your book that read, ‘In Loving Memory,’

Only then, did I remember that it was real

That none of this was a bad dream, and there was no time to wake

Laughing at my mistake, going into your room to watch that you were indeed safe

It was real when I looked at the photos

The memories seeping into the most precious things imaginable

As I tried to grasp that they were real and alive

But you were gone

Gone to fill in the pictures that were now the only things that mattered to me

Your face so happily aware of the bliss that you were experiencing

Or the tiredness you felt that day

The pictures, they tell a lot to me

Especially now that I know I haven’t been dreaming

Now that you’re not here

I have a whole wall of pictures that tell our stories

And yours is the center piece

But I also know that in these five years, you want me to only grow stronger

There is no doubt in my mind that you want me to be stronger

To take those pictures and feel electric

To seek out the things that matter the most to me

I could write oceans of how my love broke in half that day

But I also need to learn how to write seas of how my love may be hallowed

But that it knows you’re still there

Whispering to me, ‘That’s so good, honey.’

Has it really been five years, my baby, my honey?

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