• Gone
    Bubba.
    You made special jell-o with fruit and your secret ingredient.
    When I try to make it, it's never right.
    You made burnt honey-cake.
    Pumpkin pie.
    Delicious.
    You comforted me.
    Bubba
    Mom
    Sister
    Wife
    Cousin
    Aunt
    Niece
    Daughter
    Friend

    You took me on 'adventures'
    They were really shopping trips where you bought me a treat

    Your garden.
    Colorful
    Tomatoes
    Bees
    Animals

    Cancer.
    A never-ending hole of despair.
    It took you away from me.
    No more hugs.
    Like a never-ending vacation.
    Never to see your smiling face again

    64.
    It's too young to die.
    Years of life left to live.
    You're gone.
    Never to breathe again.
    Never to smile again.
    Never to be with me again.

    Alone.
    Lonely.
    No one to talk to.
    I picture you in my dreams.
    That image of you in the casket.
    Face blank.
    Eyes closed.
    Never to open them again.

    Bubba? I miss you.