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I hope I made you proud

Today I put paper to pen

Like I've done many times before

But it's time, I can't deny

The loss that I felt inside

So I kept my distance

But I'd go back it somehow

Your brief existence

An emptiness I can't resist

A memory's not enough

My world has fallen apart

And all I have left

A smiling face without an embrace

I closed my heart and tried and hide

From a void I can't describe

But in a child's eyes I realized

That this empty space can't be replaced

I'd fall from grace for your embrace

I'm sorry that I stayed away

I fall and pray that you'd save me

Kissing your grave tracing your name

How did my heart become so jaded?

Was it the guilt or just remorse?

I keep coming back to this

It's your smile that I still miss

Help me keep my life on course

And though your life passed

We'll stay together

And when I'm laid to rest

You'll be my light forever

I'd fall from grace for your embrace

I'm sorry that I stayed away

I'd fall from grace for your embrace

I'm sorry that I stayed away

I'd fall from grace for your embrace

I'm sorry that I stayed away