Fall again...

I have tried to cope

with the hole you left

on that hard day in may

five years ago

Three weeks till your birthday

in Colorado on vacation

wondering what to get you

the next day we got the call

A 4am call that put

a piece of all of us

to sleep, for it would

rise no more

It would rise no more like 

the sound of your laugh

or your voice from the 

lessons yet to learn

We held your wake in 

the church all of the baptismals

were, so I was told

by relatives, some I knew

But there were some you 

didn't expect like some of the

kids who rode your bus

and remembered you still

You will not know some of

these things but I tell you when

I see you, it has been so long

because it pains me to visit

You'd never know, but

I let my spouse sleep

on that ride, five years ago

just so I could let some

of the tears fall for you

Now five years later,

I still let her sleep

when we go to see you

so I can let them 

fall again...

Let them fall again