A Cold Day in November

Just a cold day in November,
the end of our Thanksgiving break,
a day that I'll always remember
as the day that we lost our Shane.

Shane was the sort of boy
that you don't meet everyday;
he always seemed to find joy
even through the most troubling things.

If you ever wore a frown
and he just happened to see you near,
he found a way to turn it around;
to make you forget your deepest fear.

He was quite the funny man,
always quoting Lewis Black.
And if you didn't know your Johnny Cash,
then, to him, you didn't know jack!

No doubt, he was light to our eyes,
but now his life brings us to tears
as we try to hard not to cry
when we remember his 15 years.

Just a cold day in November,
the end of our Thanksgiving break,
a day that I'll always remeber
as the day that we lost our Shane.

~In memory of Shane Anthony Eichthaler: January 7, 1992-November 25, 2007~