Patty One Year

Is that a year without you now, I can’t believe it so?

Seems sort of just like yesterday, where does the time go?

I go to ring you often still for a chat or just advice,

I imagine I could do it still, shit that would be so nice.

The days dragged at first, a nothingness, a hole,

I seemed to cope the early days but then it took its rightful toll,

So many unfinished conversations, things we’d planned to do,

With me still here, the activities, but alas there is no you.

I am selfish and want you back, our story is incomplete,

Such things we’d do and I would say the next time that we meet,

That hole is slowly mending though the emptiness does remain,

But life it gives me so many things to bring me joy again.

New lives are a coming soon, they will hear your tales and name

The Great Uncle they will never meet, though a story ain’t the same

As your music and your humour, courage and conviction,

The loving, laughing, learned man and massive contradiction.

So save up all your energy, cause if what some believe is true,

One day we’ll be together again, our team, me and you,

None will be safe from our scathing wit or wicked repartee,

Just thinking it may happen brings the biggest smile to me.

Thanks for the gifts you left of the times together shared,

We sucked the marrow out of life and never really cared,

The music, mirth and merriment, all the times spent with you,

Remain as the sweetest memories, and sadly these must do!

John Mason 18/1/2019