Richard Derek Meese
Today is a sad day,
We think of it with fear
It is the day you went away
Although we feel you near.
A million times, we've asked, "Why, God?"
A million times, we've cried.
A million times, we've wished you home.
A million times, our pain we've tried to hide.
A million times we called for you
and spoken your name out loud,
A million times we've heard you laugh
as if from on a cloud.
So today, Rich, although we are heart broken
we'll laugh a little too
Each one will have a memory,
of something you had spoken.
But you are not forgotten
Each one of us is feeling blue,
Look down on us and smile
we're wearing blue for you.
Steve Meese
31 August 2012