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For Holly and Ed, we love and miss you so much!

- Jack and Austin

This loss of all innocence,

the hands that guard us often wither

and leaving us so exposed.

Naked to the wolves,

away from our fathers and mothers

who once sheltered us from

the terror of the world.

Who will hold us now that they have gone?

Left to be embraced by fear and loss

whose gentle hands rock us to sleep,

singing vicious lullabies to us.

The grim reminder of all

we have lost, of our fallen kin,

the innocence lost.

So we turn within, grown into adults

and longing to be children again

just to hear your voice once more.

Just to hear your voice once more...

We saw the hands of the Gods that day,

in quick wings held steady.

A gaze across time, a last goodbye

and hope took flight.

We may never see your face again

but I know you haven't left us.

Your work lives on in me,

your heart live on in me.

The current ran against our feet,

another loss to nourish,

the river you became.

Rich earth contains

memories of past days,

the soil that embraced you

and seeds for future hopes.

The air I breath again,

the cycle spins on!

Neither lost nor forgotten

with sun shining down,

we walk within you in the day.

We sleep beneath you in the night

and remember you all of our lives.

Our lives,

all of our lives.

Our lives,

all of our lives.