Sunshine and Daisies

I look at you, so small and frail
As you fight you look so pale

So many machines, so many wires
A nurse stands by that never tires

I want to hold you close to me
But right now, that just can't be

I miss your smile, your bright eyes
How I hate these sad goodbye's

Please wake up! I want to yell
But you don't, we are in Hell

I love you more than I can say
All I want is for you to stay

The doctor says it won't be
You are going to be leaving me

I tell myself the pain will end
But I guess that will depend

For you it will, this I know
Not for me, left far below

I close my eyes, I raise my face
I feel the warmth you will embrace

I can see you, beautiful and strong
Not here, where you belong

You are in a meadow, beside a brook
There are daisies everywhere I look

I can see you run, I can see you play
I can't make myself ask you to stay

Not here, not where you have to strain
To fight with all the problems and pain

My princess, my love, my happiness
Sweet child, all you touch, you bless

It's OK, I promise, don't fight for me
Rest my little one, and be free

Don't listen as I cry below
I understand that you must go

You belong in that meadow
Surrounded by that glow

Forever I will remember you
And when I do

I will always see you, running, laughing
A beautiful child, forever playing

In a perfect meadow
Surrounded forever
By sunshine and daisies

I love you my precious Little Bit
With all my heart and soul, forever
Aunt Sarah

For
Sommer Rose Barger
August 31, 2001 - February 18, 2005