I loved you as a little child
I loved you then and now
I loved you as an annoying teen
I loved you then and now
I loved you as a handsome young man
I loved you then and now
I loved you as a brave adult
I loved you then and now
And when things started getting hard
Your illness came and went
You suddenly became that child again
Who we all loved then and now.
Though your time was short and sweet
Your memory lives on so clear
We laugh and we cry, and we all miss you
Because we loved you then and now
Today was the last day of mourning for my brother....the end of the 11 months of saying "kaddish". Coincidentally, we also had his tombstone unveiling today. Only the immediate family attended and we all stood around his grave, holding hands and listened to my mother talk about his life. Born as a blue baby, he wasn't suppose to live. He escaped death many times throughout his short life....starting at birth, then around 5 or 6 years of age he climbed up the high diving board at a hotel pool and jumped off, not knowing how to swim. Iin his youth, around 12 yrs old, he went through a sliding glass door and severed his arm...almost bleeding to death. In his teens his car went over a cliff and he and a friend came out without a scratch. Finally, as an adult he developed crone's disease and twice he hemorrhaged so badly he almost didn't make it.....
But at 48, his time was up. This time he couldn't be saved.
