Granddaddy II

You never know how it feels to lose something or someone you really love until it's happened. For me going to the funeral home was no big deal, or at least more of the time it wasn't, but this time it was different. Most of the people I had ever seen there were people I didn't really know that good. This time the person who was there was my granddaddy.

            It was scary, I didn't want to believe that he had died, but I knew it was the truth. Even though I still don't want to believe it, I have to. I know he's in a much better place now, he is in no more pain, he can walk around, he can do almost whatever he want to do, and he is in a place where there is only peace.

            When I saw him for the first time in the casket he looked so peaceful and there was no more pain. The way he laid there looked as if he could smile at us at anytime. He looked younger too. For almost all of my life all I had seen of him was when he was sick. He had become really sick just before I was born. Now I know what he looked like when he wasn't sick.

            There are lots of things I will miss about him but I know life has to go on. Life is like a circle, it never ends. Once you die, you don't just disappear into thin air, you go to heaven. And you stay there forever with God. Some of the things I will miss about him are the times he used to wake me up in the morning and we would go watch the sun rise and then go get doughnuts.

            Other things I will miss are the times after church when I was real little, I would go home with my Grandmommy and granddaddy. Then I would take off my dress and just run around in my fluffy slip and carry my mom's old records around. I will also miss when he taught me and Josh how to shoot the paper of straws and hit people with them.

            Even though he is gone I still know he is here, with us, right now. Grandmommy had made a promise to him that she would get him back into this church and she had brought him back, just like she said.

            Life goes on, even with the bad things, life will go on, even though he isn't here where we can see him, we do know he is here. His body may look as if he's not here, but his spirit is in this room. I will always love him no matter what.

Love,

Kailey