About a year ago I lost someone who was near and dear to my heart, a best friend. Now he didn’t move to a new town or go to a new school like some of my friends, he passed away. I didn’t know what to do, what to say, or even what to think, because nothing was there. I still remember walking up along side of him as he lied there. Everything inside me just stopped. All I could do was cry. I tried to think, but nothing came. I tried to hope… but again nothing. To this day I still have problems coping with his death, but once I really began to hope, and to start to express my hidden feelings things began to get better. It was like I had an angel on my shoulder telling me that everything was going to be all right and that he was in a better place. Now whenever I hope, I hope that he’s looking down at me and that he knows that I think about him every day. I also hope that when that day comes for me, I will see him again, and I’ll sit next to him, up there, on a cloud.
On A Cloud
Music by William Ogmundson with Lyrics by Kathleen Skinner, Trish Lindberg and Mrs. Cole’s HS Creatinve Writing Class, Bow, NH.
On a cloud
Floating high and free
I am safe
Where I’m meant to be
No sorrow
No sadness here
No darkness
The sky calm and clear
No Pain
Only Happiness
Falling down like rain
Death has no place here, only life
Hatred has to grasp here, only love
Say what I want to say
Need not ever be afraid
A castle of rainbows where children play
Hopeful faces stare up at me
My magic kingdom safe and carefree
I am with you and you with me.
On a cloud
Floating high and free
I am safe
Where I’m meant to be
No sorrow
No sadness here
No darkness
The sky calm and clear
No Pain
Only Happiness
Falling down like rain
And you’ll be there
Everywhere
Floating by without a care
On a cloud.