If memories could be miracles and tears could dull the pain,
I’d be once more happy and have you back again…
If all the times I thought of you that made me smile could mend
The hole you leaving left in my heart, my perfect, loving friend…
My heart would be whole, my life would be bliss,
If you were again here so I needn’t miss
The sound of your voice, the joy in your laugh,
The times that we shared in days that are passed…
But tears fall like rain from my eyes in vain,
My heart aches in deep, love-lost pain;
But the tears can’t cause miracles, they’ll never bring you back.
The pain in my heart gives me no slack
To say that I’ll miss you sounds hollow, in fact,
Because what I feel goes much deeper than that…
For the truth in my heart, for so long I kept hid
That in fact what I felt was love and it did
Never come out, for so afraid was I;
I never thought that you ever would die.
Too young to be taken from a world that needed
More people like you, whom the call to serve heeded
Risking your life so others could live
in a safer place because of what you did;
As a firefighter, a rescuer, officer and friend,
your legacy lives on through all of your friends.
For though we will miss you, and cry empty tears,
we’ll never forget how for our lives you cared,
Hopefully we will be able to follow the footsteps you left
when you did more than we dared.
No miracle will ever bring you, our friend, back;
But love, friendship and memories of you we won’t lack.
You were one-of-a-kind, just like this poem,
And we’ll never forget you, though God called you home…
