For you...

Grandad, don't leave me please,
I miss your smiling face at the door,
Bearing presents and love for me to hold in my heart forever,
You're presence fills me with hope and it clings to me when you're gone,

But the memory is lost,
Not in me but in you,
You don't remember how to say my own name,
You don't remember what it feels like to love me,
You don't remember how to love at all.

There is no cure for this pain,
The pain both me and you are going through,
You want to hold on but something is making you let go,
That illness that no one can treat

The memories of how you used to be are haunting my dreams,
The spirits guide me to a happy place there,
But when I awake you're gone,
The reality stays the same...

I wish I could change it,
I wish I could make you well,
But nothing will take away my grandad,
Not even death....

I just hope you remember the memories one day too....