Memories Of You Poem by Kimberly Santistevan

My seventeenth birthday will be here next month,
I really don’t want it to come though.

Because every year that my day comes up
I think of how you left me on that same day.

I don’t want to forget you
So I am trying to remember you.

It will be twelve years that you have been gone,
It hurts so much when I remember the day that I found out
When you had died.

Every time I go visit your grave,
I cannot stand,
It hurts and I fall to the ground,
Tears fall from my eyes
And I can’t control them.

I have a few memories of you
Because you died when I was so young.

You and me were so close,
That is why it is getting harder to stay strong every year.

I can’t believe it has been this long since you’ve gone away.

I am trying my hardest to keep you proud
Hoping you are smiling down at me.

Trying to remember you
Don’t forget that I love you and always will,
Miss you, Grandpa Dennis.