It's been five long years since you went away <br />But it seems as though it was only yesterday <br />We still love you as much now as we did then <br />God gave you to us and God took you home <br />But he told us this is my way and it will be through all my days <br />He does not do it for spite <br />Because he loves us with all his might <br />We still have a hurt in our hearts, but it will soon be filled <br />For our God is slowly letting it heal <br />Your children and grandchildren have not forgotten you and never will <br />We tell them what a loveing and careing man that you were <br />Hardworking and did God's will <br />I'm proud to let people know you were my father <br />And I was proud to be the Black Smith's daughter<br /><br />Bernice Shipman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-s-been-five-long-years/
