entry about Grandpa
wrote this last wednesday, on april 23, 2008. the day my parents took Grandpa to the hospital.
cheekbones defined.
he's so thin.
i wish i could give him the twenty pounds i want to lose.
he snores. a whining snore.
almost like a child's cry.
i keep thinking of shakespeare's comparison
of infants to elderly.
my grandpa's ears are longer than
my index fingers.
to my family that means you'll have a long life.
uncle bill said to remember him in his younger days
when he was a mischievous man always laughing.
i'll remember those days,
but he's no less stronger to me today.
he survived eight whole years without grandma by his side.
sixty-four years of marriage. ninety-nine years of life.
i wish we could talk.
but the important things don't always have to be said aloud, do they?
i love you, Grandpa.
cheekbones defined.
he's so thin.
i wish i could give him the twenty pounds i want to lose.
he snores. a whining snore.
almost like a child's cry.
i keep thinking of shakespeare's comparison
of infants to elderly.
my grandpa's ears are longer than
my index fingers.
to my family that means you'll have a long life.
uncle bill said to remember him in his younger days
when he was a mischievous man always laughing.
i'll remember those days,
but he's no less stronger to me today.
he survived eight whole years without grandma by his side.
sixty-four years of marriage. ninety-nine years of life.
i wish we could talk.
but the important things don't always have to be said aloud, do they?
i love you, Grandpa.