It still hurts

It's been almost 19 months since you left us

Sadness comes to call: regularly: after all

We miss you in so very many ways: it's true

Honey we all miss you! Some days more so

We'd been together for more than half our lives

Married young, I was but 22, you almost 24

Were we too young to settle down?

Were we too naive, too irresponsible?

I just spent an hour talking with our daughter

Reminiscing, remembering: feeling sad...

Together we will try to make it through

Some days will be worse than others

Some days we will be okay...

But it still hurts to be without you...

Your children are grown up already

Adults in their own right: living, working

Your grand children are thriving too

You would be amazed at the changes

How tall they have grown: without you

To see them playing, laughing, crying too

Days go on, weeks pass, months fly by

Soon it will be two years without you here

I drove past the cemetery just the other day

When was the last time I took you flowers?

It wasn't all that long ago...

Yet time is flying past like a silent wind

They say "time stands still for no man"

I guess that's true...but...

It still hurts...this missing you...