In Loving Memory of Blake

The world grew quiet when you fell,
A silence only time can tell.
Your laughter lingers in the air,
A spark of life still burning there.

You walked through fire, scarred yet kind,
A fighter with a poet’s mind.
You taught me strength through every scar,
To love myself for who we are.

You stumbled, yes, but then you rose,
Like springtime breaking winter’s close.
Your eyes held storms, but still they shone,
A universe I called my own.

I saw you smile that final day,
The light of hope that won’t decay.
You proved that healing can begin,
Even when the pain still lives within.

Now heaven hums your favorite song,
And angels sing where you belong.
Yet here below, I softly ache,
Forever changed by knowing Blake.

You saved my faith, you stilled my fear,
You live in whispers I still hear.
And when I dream, or when I pray,
You walk beside me....every day.

The Smile That Saved Me

I found him on the edge of night,
His spirit dimmed, his knuckles white,
But hope, though fragile, flickered near,
A whispered light I chose to steer.

He trembled soft, but took my hand,
Together we would learn to stand.
Through detox walls and shattered dreams,
We stitched new faith from broken seams.

I left him there, his eyes were so unsure,
The road to healing never pure.
Then Tracy’s ghost came calling fast,
Her final breath, her shadow cast.

I nearly gave the fight away,
My will was thin, my skies were gray, 
But then he walked out, clear and true,
And smiled like dawn breaking through dew.

It wasn’t joy, it wasn’t pride,
It was rebirth from deep inside.
A second chance, his eyes confessed,
And in that gaze, my soul was blessed.

I saw in him the proof of grace,
The kind no sermon can replace.
He’d fallen hard, yet rose again,
A boy reborn, a healed young man.

Now angels guard where Blake once lay,
But I still see him every day.
In sunrise hues, in laughter’s art,
He lives within my mended heart.

He saved my soul, though lost his own,
He taught me how the seeds are sown,
That love survives, though bodies fall,
And one bright smile can save us all.