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The day you left I was so depressed

All I could do is reminisce

on a time of happiness

Although I feel anger and hate

I know I can’t fight fate

And I know it’s selfish

But I wish you were here

I desperately hoped you would make it through one more year

I’m just glad that your final wish came true

to go back home to your roots

even when the doctors told you no

you constantly insisted so

to go back to Tonga

and see the family you dearly missed.

When they rang and told me you arrived

I was filled with joy and happiness

but these feelings soon became a myth

as I learnt that you took your last breath

You didn’t even make the ride home

welcoming hearts soon turned cold

full of sadness and grief

for a grandpa everyone missed.

But I know this was apart of your plan

and so I must understand

that your soul lays at peace in the beauty of your land

Some days tears stream down my face

when I think of the special day I missed

where they lowered you into a ditch

and even though your body now lays a sea apart

you will always be in my heart

now and forever

 as the best grandpa ever.

This poem talks about my own struggle with death when my beloved grandpa passed in 2013