If I Knew  / Nikki Lago (Cousin)

-Anonymous

If I knew it would be the last time
That I'd see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time
I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would video tape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time,
I could spare an extra minute to stop and say "I love you,"
instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.
If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
well I'm sure you'll have so many more,
so I can let just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow
to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything just right.
There will always be another day to say "I love you,"
And certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do?"
But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget.
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike,
And today may be the last chance
you get to hold your loved one tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day,
That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their ear,
Tell them how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear
Take time to say "I'm sorry," "Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay."
And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.

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Without Andrew  / Nikki Lago (Cousin)

Without Andrew There are no words to express no songs or poems can capture how this ache in my heart grows daily, and each day the hurt grows faster . . . There is still so much to do . . . so many changes that will occur . . . and none of it is right without you now that life's clear lines are blurred . . . I've thought about you everyday . . . most of my day, or all of my day . . . I close my eyes and remember the days . . . life was good and whole Sometimes you're in my dreams . . . and I get flashbacks from years ago . . . I try my best to stay asleep . . . I don't want to let these dreams go . . . But when I must wake, I know in my dream My time with you is through But I can always keep my eyes closed that extra second . . . To say "I Love You, Andrew" Nikki Lago Copyright ©2005 Nikki Lago

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You Will NEVER be forgotten  / April Haley (friend)
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Here Without You  / Nikki Lago (Cousin)

By 3 Doors Down

A hundred days have made me older
Since the last time that I saw your pretty face
A thousand lies have made me colder
And I don't think I can look at this the same

All the miles that separate
Disappear now when I'm dreamin' of your face
I'm here without you ...
But you're still on my lonely mind

I think about you... and I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you ...
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight, there's only you and me.

The miles just keep rollin'
As the people leave their way to say hello
I've heard this life is overrated
But I hope that it gets better as we go.

I'm here without you...
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you... and I dream about you all the time

I'm here without you...
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight... there's only you and me.

Everything I know, and anywhere I go
It gets hard but it won't take away my love
And when the last one falls, when it's all said and done.
It gets hard but it won't take away my love

I'm here without you...
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you... and I dream about you all the time

I'm here without you...
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight... there's only you and me

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The Broken Chain / Krystina And Dylan McMahon (friend and nephew)
We do not need a special day to bring you to our minds.
The days we do not think of you are very hard to find.
Each morning when we awake we know that you are gone.
And no one knows the heartache as we try to carry on.
Our hearts still ache with sadness and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to lose you no one will ever know.
Our thoughts are always with you, your place no one can fill.
In life we loved you dearly; in death we love you still.

There will always to be a heartache, and often a silent tear.
But always a precious memory of the days when you were here.
If tears would make a staircase, and heartaches make a lane,
We'd walk the path to heaven and bring you home again.
We hold you close within our hearts; and there you will remain,
To walk with us throughout our lives until we meet again.
Our family chain is broken now, and nothing seems the same,
But as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again. Close

His Journey's Just Begun  / Nikki Lago (Cousin)
By Ellen Brenneman


Don't think of him as gone away-
his journey's just begun
life holds so many facets
this earth is only one.

Just think of him as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.

Think how he must be wishing
that we could know today
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.

And think of him as living
in the hearts of those he touched...
for nothing loved is never lost-
and he was loved so much. Close