(Elbow - Dear Friends)
Dear grandfather,
I have little to say, to your 94 years of experience. Little to say in how one should live theirs. I am fortunate to have known you. I am apparently even more fortunate to have known your personal close emotions, something which I found normal, and expressed to you too, and to be given that in return, as at appears now. Is the greatest of gifts you could have given me.
I was the first grandchild you held in your arms, only to realise what you missed in the past. I drove you around for a few years. I heard the stories of the world, your world, your life. Stories of peace, house and family, yet also stories of war, suffering and the good and bad of mankind. You were the one person that taught me the value of Peace. And I will never forget that, nor how difficult it is to attain and keep.
You were the man that believed on his own terms, and sought out to find his own truth. And through the chance of sheer luck, and your lack of technological understanding. I was even gifted the knowledge of how you loved your wife, my grandmother. And how you kept doing so, and kept cheeky when everyone else was gone.
And I read your tired mind, your tired bones. And carried you along on several occasion, to be gifted with the warm thought of basking in your stories. You gave me stories, never advice only when I asked. Something I struggle to do even today. I am feel blessed to have seen but the best of you. And am pleased to know you are in your heaven, with Grandmother, even though you didn't expect to.
I'll miss you.
Requis In Pace,
Nunc est bidendum, te senex.
I have little to say, to your 94 years of experience. Little to say in how one should live theirs. I am fortunate to have known you. I am apparently even more fortunate to have known your personal close emotions, something which I found normal, and expressed to you too, and to be given that in return, as at appears now. Is the greatest of gifts you could have given me.
I was the first grandchild you held in your arms, only to realise what you missed in the past. I drove you around for a few years. I heard the stories of the world, your world, your life. Stories of peace, house and family, yet also stories of war, suffering and the good and bad of mankind. You were the one person that taught me the value of Peace. And I will never forget that, nor how difficult it is to attain and keep.
You were the man that believed on his own terms, and sought out to find his own truth. And through the chance of sheer luck, and your lack of technological understanding. I was even gifted the knowledge of how you loved your wife, my grandmother. And how you kept doing so, and kept cheeky when everyone else was gone.
And I read your tired mind, your tired bones. And carried you along on several occasion, to be gifted with the warm thought of basking in your stories. You gave me stories, never advice only when I asked. Something I struggle to do even today. I am feel blessed to have seen but the best of you. And am pleased to know you are in your heaven, with Grandmother, even though you didn't expect to.
I'll miss you.
Requis In Pace,
Nunc est bidendum, te senex.
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