With each year that goes by, I dedicate this day to honoring your memory
with dessert before dinner, chocolate milkshakes or vanilla ice cream cones,
a bottle of the raspberry water you kept stocked in the cellar,
and I write. I try to remember the time before we lost you, before you lost yourself,
before each visit was a guessing game of when and where your brain would be
before the beginning of the end, when you were still fully you.
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In loving memory of my grandfather, written on the 11th anniversary of his passing (December 3).
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Sorry for your loss. Your grandad sounds like such an awesome person - anyone who chooses dessert before dinner is :)
Heartbreaking but so sweet
This hit me so hard. I love the things you do to honour his memory. Loved your poem!