Missed Friend

Missing Friend

He came into my life

due to my new wife.

He soon became

my best mate in life,

beyond the wife.

Too soon he

lost his life,

now there's a hole in my life.

Memories of the past

I must get past.

I so want to revisit the past.

I'm left empty inside

with his passing of life.

But still

I must go on

with the rest of my life.

RIP Dennis Rose. Eureka, California. Never forgotten.

Author's Note

In a previous life with the wife of many years her brother was my best friend. He lost his life much to soon to cancer. Since we have been divorced I have never had the opportunity to share my feelings of loss. I want to add his name Dennis Rose of Eureka, California.

Reviews

[Scrap]

Thank you for expressing yourself and sharing this with us. Sorry about the loss of ur friend.

Hugs

[Willard Wells]

Thank you Scrap. Appreciated.

[barleygirl]

A beautiful tribute to your friend & brother-in-law. I like the way you've expressed yourself simply & without fanfare. It feels like a mature grief, wherein you've learned to live with the loss, but it remains as an aching emptiness at time. I know the exact feeling. That's what makes your poem so relatable. Good job & thanks for sharing.

[Willard Wells]

Thanks for the time and comments. Greatly appreciated.

[Desert Knave]

Excellent write. My best friend died in 2012 ... I do not think that hole in my life will ever be filled and the wound stays fresh. I hope you found writing this to be cathartic. I have been planning on doing something similar for my friend ... but just have not found the right feel / platform. Anyhow, nicely done. ~Jim

[Willard Wells]

Please forgive my delay in thanking you. I have been on a 7 days run in my head and apparently I lost track.

Yes I think the writing was cathartic. For the first two days after I wrote it, i cried every time I returned to the piece. I am better now and did not realize what effect this piece and my thoughts would have on me. Thank you again for your kind words and I wish you the best in dealing with your loss also. May you also find the peace you need. Thank you again for your kind words.

[Destiny Dreamer]

OH! That's very sad and Heart touching ... While reading really, I felt very sad. Its AMAZING Poem!

[Willard Wells]

Thank you for reading. It is such a new writing brought about by finding the pictures. Every time i am brought back to it by a comment or review and look at his picture I cry. Even as I tell you of the emotion of this piece for me I am sitting here in tears once again. Thank you again.

[Destiny Dreamer]

OH! I am so SORRY! Really Your words and emotions brought tears in my eyes too. It's breath taking Poem. I adore my friends too! They are very important part of our life!

[Perkele.7885]

When you bond the way you have bonded with this man in your life, you have in fact lost a family member. a brother,more than just in name only but, in fact. You will always have good memories of your friendship to call forth when you need a man's opinion of something, for you will have his right there with you!

[Willard Wells]

Perk, very well put and you are correct. It was family pictures that I thought were gone. I think I mentioned I found over 140 pictures and videos I had taken of him and his family. I forwarded them to his family and they from what I was told had never seen them. Good day. Thanks for your heart felt words.

[Taylor]

A wonderful tribute to a great person in your life, lost by divorce and finally by death. I think the loss is doubled when there are artificial barriers caused by divorce. I had an ex=sister=in-law whom I loved a great deal but when she and my husband's brother divorced, an artificial barrier was created between us. Our relationship was too painful bec it resurrected the pain of her divorce -- thus we drifted apart and might just as well died, so out of each others' lives we were. Even today, many years later, our contact is awkward and I sense that it brings up issues for her that are still difficult.

[Willard Wells]

You did feel and see what it was. As for your past relationship, I could suggest so much, but as with you I could not go there and now this is my way. Thanks.

[Coyote Poetry]

I'm sorry for you lost. We have few true friends.
Coyote

[Willard Wells]

Thank you. Not really going for a pity party, but when you write somethings, it feels that it just happens.

[Coyote Poetry]

I understand. I lost many good friends. Teaches us to appreciate the people who care for us and we care for them.

[JayceeC]

Some people come into our lives at just the right time and bring untold amounts of joy with them. When the leave there is an emptiness that cannot be filled by others, and perhaps that is as it should be. It keeps them alive in our memories, where we nurture the best of who they were, and that somehow makes us a bit better too.

[Willard Wells]

Thank you for your words. My friend or as I referred to him for years "Brother". He was the closest I had to a brother and he does have a special place in my heart and mind. It has been many months since his passing and I was in a bad wreck 3 days after his time had come and I was rather out of it mentally for a bit. So I have now regrouped and found some words which I think came to me as I viewed some lost files of pictures that I sent to my ex wife. This was one of them. I found over 130 pictures and videos that his sister (my ex) and his wife had never seen. It brought great joy to my heart to be able to share some past moments with them. My Therapy. Hahaha

[JayceeC]

Therapy comes in many forms and as you've said, this one is pretty cheap..it only costs as much time as you care to give it.

[Willard Wells]

You motivated me to write something and I made it longer. Just a fun piece after our word exchange. Texas.

[Relic]

Life is filled with many mysteries and cancer is one of them. I've known those who died from cancer and to me...their song is finished much too soon. I believe those we've lost live in our hearts and never go away. I'm sorry for your heartbreaking loss.

[Willard Wells]

Relic, thank you for taking time to read and comment. And yes he will live on in my heart and my mind..