By Your Side
Dedicated to my father, may he work through his medical problems.
You never know that you love something so much until it starts to fade
Every laugh, every smile, every hike you have ever taken starts to vanish
All you have looked up to starts to disappear, all you have become starts to change
You begin to be replaced with a new unwanted feeling
The only thing that this feeling, this empty space in you leaves is a want to fill it once again; to regain what was lost
You can't give up now, not when all you love is standing beside you
You can't give up because all of us feel that you can and should push through
You can't give up because all of us would rather take your burden than see you suffer
I and the rest of your loved ones will stay at your side until you push through, until you become that smile, that memory, that role model we all look to once again