Dusty Pictures: Heidi Elizabeth Kashtock

Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:57PM
[Pat Kashtock] in "Heidi Elizabeth Kashtock", A Child's Brain Tumor, children's hospital, clearwater beach, feeding seagulls, granny hirst's dress, life death and alligators, nancy reagan

Dusty Pictures

 

verse 1:

I dusted your picture today

and I remember

when life was full of promise

and the dreams we had

were something yet to be known

I look at you, your picture

with eyes of brown

a heart of gold and I remember,

I remember…

 

Chorus:

Oh, where did the time go

the child go

when did she leave?

I want to know

what happened

how did it happen

is it real?

 

Verse 2:

I reach out to hold you but all

I hold is a picture

your picture with the smile

that always warmed my heart

Must it be that I will never

see your eyes again sparkle

the way that they sparkled

in the sunlight? and I remember,

I remember…

 

Chorus:

Oh, where did the time go

the child go

when did she leave?

I want to know

what happened

how did it happen

is it real?

 

Bridge:

And I’m left here

askin’ all the questions

never hearing the answers

never hearing your laughter…

 

only the falling of dust

onto the rug

 

Chorus:

Oh, why did she go

must it be so

I will never…

I’ll never know

what happened

how it happened…

what might have been…

 

 

Patricia Hammell Kashtock 

Article originally appeared on Conversations with God while walking through life, surviving a child's cancer, fighting slavery, death of a child (http://patkashtock.squarespace.com/).