Did you really think these things wouldn't get done
once you weren't here to do them?
Don't you know that I'm the one
who will let you shine right through them?
"Don't worry about my lillies any more!
Not important," you gasped,
"Let them go"
and then you clapsed your hand with mine
We said good by one last time,
And don't you know
Your legacy is mine.
Your lilies bloom
and your coi circle their roots,
and, yea, I'll tell you the truth,
We have big worries
and bitter tea,
Seen some long days
since you left me.
But lilies, your lilies,
are very important to me
Don't you know
that I'm your legacy?
So those arriving still see
Coi and lilies in the water,
and you through me,
Your daughter.
Your legacy is safe with me.
2004
Jackie
Jackie Lynn took my heart
gently changed its form,
And handed back a gift from God
that could weather any storm.
Often late at night
she would tell me stories of her life,
Pouring out 42 years
until the morning light.
I listened in amazement
as she never said "Why Me?"
She felt that those who loved her
were the real victims of E.B.
Jackie didn't just overcome E.B.
She made it disappear,
Overpowering it with love of life
although death was always near.
In her eyes I saw eturnity
and it took away my breath,
Surely just such eyes had closed
the day that Jesus wept.
She leaves behind a legacy
More precious than silver and gold,
A love of life beyond belief
and purity of soul.
We will miss her presence
but be thankful for God's will,
And that He loved us enough
to give us Jackie Lynn Caudill.
1996
I lost him
it seems like yesterday and forever
Since then
Laughter comes by a maunal lever.
Pieces of our hearts
Cross on ahead and away,
and, Damn It!
it hurts!
The I love you's left to say.
And yes he's with me
I hold his spirit near
Comforted that he waits for me,
I'l face my own year
without fear
nor rush,
because I know
He was too close to be far
be he light years away,
Where he or I are
we are
a gift for which we pay
With heart ache.
Heart Break,
A loss that cam make
yur heart
almost stop,
A force that can take
you to the very top,
and bottom,
all depths of pain,
to remain,
behind
living then in refrain
in the memory
of your soul and mind.
