Smiling picture look away
My heart can’t stand to see you today
You look so happy, so picturesque
A painful reminder that someday
We all enter eternal rest
Smiling picture look away
Stop mocking life with your display
Frozen still to quietly tease
Stop being there, just go away please
I don’t want to see
I refuse to reminisce
A person I will always miss
It is too soon
To fondly remember
To smile for the good
I only see cold, gray pallor
Death personified
I only taste the salt of tears we all have cried
Smiling picture disappear
You represent just what I fear
Being gone, just like that
Like I was never there at all
When in the shadow of my mortality
I find it hard to keep my gall
Smiling picture look away
My heart is too fragile to see you today
Verse Not Prose 
“It is too soon” seems to be the crux to be gleaned. Go well in your healing, my comrade. 🙂
Thank you, I am trying!
Hope you have a wonderful day!!
Andrea xxx
I’m making a little headway with my scores of WP e-mails, and I’ve birthed a couple of poems, so not a bad day overall. Even had a haircut! 😀
An excellent day indeed!! That reminds me, I need to get one as well. Don’t ever grow your hair to your waist. It becomes very high maintenance.
Andrea
But don’t go too far. One day it will be looked on with sadness, and perhaps a happy memory…
I know. Grief has its stages though.
Andrea XOXO
BIG HUGGS SOUTHERN BELLE ….
HOPE YOU ARE OKAY XOXOXOXO
MORE THAN OK ? 🙂 XOXOXO
LOVE XO CAT
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN….
I LIKE THIS ALL CAPS THING LOL MAY I BORROW IT??
HOW IS YOUR VOICE???
Andrea XOXOXOXO
Deep pain to early to express, lovely poem!!
Thank you, it’s scary how the little things can remind
Andrea XOXO
I have to read over and over, pain but lovely Andrea.
Best wishes.
Thank you, it hurt to write, but I felt better after.
Andrea xx
This was beautifully done. Who knew a smiling picture can cause so much pain. It’s sad. I nominated you for the Sunshine Award.
Thank you so much, but I do not accept awards. My rewards are wonderful comments such as yours 🙂
Andrea XOXO
The stages of grief are so painful, and they take soooo looong…..
They do, and the more you think about it, the longer they take.
Andrea XOXO
Deep and strong feelings of grief eh. Beautiful piece
Thank you, I miss my uncle dearly.
Andrea xx
Oh i know the feeling, i have a similar piece a tribute to my late brother, will post it one of these days but i want you to know that your uncle misses you too:). Make him happy by always putting a smile on your face!
Inspiring words, I will remember them always, thank you
Andrea XOXO
My pleasure 🙂
Very beautiful, sad, and powerful poem. I remember these feelings all too well. ♥
They are all consuming
Andrea xx
Oh, how I could relate to this awhile ago and now I’m more at peace, but not saying that a tear doesn’t show every so often…hugs to you, Andrea~ xo
Tears are important, they wash the sadness away and leave the happy moments 🙂
Andrea XOXO
This is great, as usual. Haha, I don’t know how many times I’ve said this though. But that’s because your posts always are. I have a picture of when I was little, all smiles. Surely I do miss those days. Maybe one day I’ll put that picture up because it’s something that keeps me going (I know it may sound a little odd, having a picture of my 7 year old self keeping my hopes up)
But yea, we all have those loved ones that we miss. Hopefully you’re doing well 🙂 It’s just a natural stage in life.
I totally understand!! I have a picture of myself in my locker when I was eight or nine and I am at my first swim meet, it reminds me to always try new things. The picture the poem is about one of me and my late uncle. We are sitting on the porch, playing Trivial Pursuit.
Hope you are well too!! School is winding down for me and the clock ticks slower and slower. May 29th!!!
Andrea XOXOXO
Right! It’s funny seeing how happy I was in that picture. It was taken just a few weeks before everything changed for me. But it definitely keeps me going though. That’s so awesome though. I wish that I had more time with my family like that.
Thanks! I am doing alright 😛 Ooh, just about a month left then eh? I’ll be done May 9th haha!
Rot.In.Hell
Just kidding……
My brain has been deep fried this year and trans fat is NOT good for AP exams lol
Andrea
Whoa whoa, Andrea!!!
If it makes you feel any better…I have 3 tests and a presentation in the span of 3 days. My brain will be deep fried as well.
Ooh, AP exams. I wish you well on those. I remember taking them. Do you have a lot?
5…….
Andrea
Oh my god…Well I wish you the absolute best! If I were able to transfer whatever brainpower I still have at this point of the semester I would…
amazingly written. 🙂
Thank you so much!!!
Andrea
wow… just too good. The title totally mislead though 😛 .. I expected a happy cheerfull poem 😛 … Cud really feel the pain and sadness in this. Well done!
Thank you!! ‘Twas my intention to mislead 🙂
Andrea
It’s amazing how grief enters…even just by sitting where the departed sat, or thinking of how they would’ve respond to something, or feeling the silence in the time when they used to call. I can see it in my mom’s eyes often with the recent death of her sister. This is a very poignant tribute to your dear Uncle, Andrea. Sometimes something as simple as a smile is the most important thing to remember…
The most random things in life make me happy. My favorite is when I smile at a complete stranger and the person smiles back. It gives me a strange sense of assurance ! Keep writing, Andrea !