Shu's Birthday

It's your Birthday Darling Shu!

     Ten months have passed but sometimes when I think of the day you went away, I still feel the gripping pain as though my heart has stopped and is ripped apart.

    Other times when I talk about you and our times together, I laugh uncontrollably until my tummy starts to hurt.

    You were the the day and night, the sun andthe thunder laughs

You were anything but ordinary.

  I thank God for bringing such a beautiful soul into life on the 16th of October 1983.

It' is better to have had and lost you than to never have had you at all.

   Our friendship changed me. Parts of me went with you when you left us but the seeds you've planted in me will continue to grow and I'll carry parts of you with me for the rest of my life.

I Did Not Die

Do not stand at my grave and weep.

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow;

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain;

I am the gentle Autumn’s rain.

When you awaken in the morning’s hush.

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft star that shines at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry.

I am not there;

I did not die. 

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