LOVE LOST AT SEA

You asked me to marry you, and of course I said “yes”

Anxious to commit our love, and let God do the rest

Young loves, devoted entrusting ourselves to eternity

As fate would have it that would never be

We were just beginning our engaged life together

When you decided to go fishing in stormy weather

I begged you not to go, because it wasn’t a good day

You were so excited, you chose to go anyway

Your best friend Rick had just purchased a used boat

Tragically, he could not keep it afloat

Your best friend, you and brother were presumed drowned

They said "the boat capsized, and you were the last one down"

All I could do was pray and scream out your name

Then my mind began playing the denial game

I expected at any moment, for you to walk through the door
So that our happy life together would be forevermore

Sitting on your mom’s sofa, and watching the evening news

A detective mentioned something about their new found clues

Seeing the black body bag which had just been retrieved

Underneath the Golden Gate Bridge

Damn it
 This I could not conceive

That it was you, they’ve found after six whole weeks

My heart torn out, and bleeding, I couldn’t even speak

Prior to this, we had the memorial service

Still asking myself “what did I do to deserve this?”

For twenty plus years I’ve compared men to you

You treated me like a queen, yet they didn’t know what to do

I couldn’t understand why God took my fiance’, my friend

There’s been a hole in my heart ever since then

Our blissful life together would never be

Forever my love, lost at sea

In Loving Memory of Michael Orlando Jackson

October 10 1959- May 15, 1983

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
10-10-10!

From the book

 “VICTIM! VICTORIOUS!”

By Antoinette Denise Johnson

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