“He only takes the best”

                         “He only takes the best”

God saw that he was getting tired and a cure was not ever to be,
so he put his hands around him and whispered,” Michael come with me.”

With tearful eyes we watched him suffer and saw him fade away,

Although we loved him dearly, we could not make Michael stay.                    

A golden heart stopped beating that day, to allow hard working hand to rest,            

God broke our hearts to prove to us, that he only takes the best.          

So when I wake I take with me, those memories can never time replace,         

 So when you cried, those tears couldn’t hide the pain I saw in your face.

Time can’t expel the heart ache we fell, that day you said good bye,

I promised you I‘d stand, as I took your hand but inside I silently cry.

Like a man you let go, your spirit, I saw flow, as your breath of last, you gave,

Though God called you home, your body left alone, as you walked, the road he had paved

The kind gestures we once shared, we two as a pair, gave wake to life its old ending,

Though now left alone, your mom, remains still strong, thus after death, exist a new beginning.

If for you, he had against all odds spared, a forbidden fruit, he would have barred,

 Instead he took you and with he, you were promised,

a life of longevity, to prove he had Cared

This everlasting slumber, he calls home for us to have rest,

God s willing plan for all mankind, a formidable time of test.

Thus lends credence to mind, that to life, we are merely just guest,

 Which proves undeliabally, that he does only, takes from life, its best?

                                Jim

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