Family

I've been living for a while
With the fear of your death
Hanging over me like a cloudy sky.
Nothing to prompt it,
No reason to feel it,
Just there in the background all the time.

The biggest sin
And the greatest shame
Is that through missing you
While you're still here
I am the one who has been missing...

I repent,
I will endeavour
To enjoy you as much as I can now.
May the fear of losing you
Drive me not to hold you so hard
That I live as if you're already gone,
But hold you loosely, yet so tenderly.
To make our little family
Complete again.