Randi Dement - Missing Paw Paw

We lost our Paw Paw one November Day,
He went to heaven before I got to say,
I love you and thank you for all you’ve done,
You gave me my mother, a mom like no-one

I hope that you can see from up there,
Because sometimes, I sit and stare
Up at the sky, and talk to you,
To hope and wish, that you are not blue.

I saw you that morning, and you said to me,
That you loved and were so very proud of me.
I miss you so damn muck,
To talk to, laugh with, and such.

The girls are getting so very tall,
I will make sure that they remember all.
You playing and holding them oh so tight,
And how you loved them, with all your might.

Black boots, hats, shirts, and jeans,
Anything else, you weren’t so keen.
Your coffee as black as the clothes that you wore,
The dot candy that you loved to get from the store.

I wonder, did God get you a set of black wings?
Cause you won’t wear white as the angels sing.
I know that you’re up there, looking down on us,
Something’s probably making you cuss.

It hurts that your gone, we feel so sad,
You were a paw paw, a husband, a dad.
Maw Maw, she loved you with all her heart,
She hurts every day, now that you’ve part.

It helps to remember all the good times,
With problems, you’d help at the dropp of a dime.
I’ll see you again, and see that the pain,
God took it; he took it, all away.

Randi Dement

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