Love Poem: I Have Missed Them 2
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Written by: Curtis Johnson

I Have Missed Them 2

When Jack, my best friend was killed, I was eleven.                                                                                                    My heart was broken; I have not loved another dog since.

I was thirteen when my father passed away.                                                                                                                    I miss not only my father, but what could have been.

When I was twenty four, grandma died, leaving me crying.                                                                                                     I longed for her to meet my first child; but it was not to be.

Twenty five years later, my mother departed this world                                                                                                       The things she said to me; the inspiration given; I miss her so.

Less than a year later, my oldest sister was killed in an accident.                                                                When I received the news, I thought my heart would explode

Four years passed, and I lost an older brother to cancer.                                                                            Growing up, I thought he was mean; as an adult, he was pure gold.

Less than a year later, a younger sister left us way too soon                                                                               There was something special in the way she called my name

Nine years later, death again descended on another younger sister.                                                          Such a sweet and lovely soul went away to grace the streets of gold.

A year later, my oldest brother breathed his last and said goodbye.                                                                       A giant slayer and leader, who blazed the trail for his younger siblings.
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