Jack's Poem

Tracy Collier Durrum wrote this poem for me a day after Jack passed (7/2/12).  She told me that it just came to her and she had to write it out as soon as she could.  She posted it on my Facebook wall and then later read it at Jack's funeral.  It now hangs in the hallway of my house on blue cloud paper.  Thank you Trace for writing this.

 

 

BEAUTIFUL BOY FULL OF HEART

FROM THIS WORLD YOU HAD TO PART

WE MAY NOT KNOW WHAT'S IN STORE

BUT I BELIEVE IT'S SO MUCH MORE

WHEN YOU WERE HERE YOU WERE BOUND

BY THE PHYSICAL THINGS THAT HELD YOU DOWN

NOW YOU'RE FREE AND IN HIS CARE

IN A PLACE VOID OF FEAR

YOU WILL SURELY NOT BE FORGOTTEN

AND DEFINITELY MISSED

BUT TO WANT YOU HERE INSTEAD OF WHERE

YOU ARE NOW, IS FROM SELFISHNESS

THE NEED OF SEEING YOUR CONTAGIOUS SMILE

YOUR HEART AND WARMTH MADE IT ALL WORTH WHILE

SO AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT WILL BE

WE KNOW AT LEAST YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED

KEEP SMILING FROM HEAVEN TO REMIND US ALL

OF THE BLESSING YOU WERE BEFORE YOU WERE CALLED...

HOME TO BE WITH GOD!!

 



Tracy and Jack Summer 2010
Thanks for helping me give him a bath that day!