by J Richard Karlsson

Created on: September 20, 2011

The day my world "almost" stopped

Funny, the day is going to change my life forever, I never knew

The sun was bright and warm, my son was all I live for

It had been his Birthday, thirteen, so filled with happiness and life

Just father and son, not his many friends, he wanted to be with dad,

I could not have been more proud to just hold his hand,

Now almost a man, I just cried with laughter, tears of true love

We were going to build something together, just father and son

You would have thought he was given the most amazing gift, it was only my love

It was than, my heart stopped, the world, my breath, my hopes, it all stopped

My son was laying motionless under the car that had just hit him

I screamed, like never before, a sound that was not human

A vision, no parent should ever witness, I was destroyed, twisted into a nightmare

But this was not a dream, I wouldn't wake up and it would all go away

I pushed the car off my son, praying the driver wouldn't keep moving

And than the Angel appeared, lifting my son, I witnessed two bodies

One laying still on the ground, and one in the arms of the Angel

When the body on the ground vanished, my son was on the side of the road

A miracle, he survived, no human explaination, he and I were together

My life has forever been changed, I still don't know how a parent feels to lose their child

The Angel was with us that day, my love for life is greater than ever, and the tears are really of Joy

My heart, my prayers, my understanding is not enough, the day it all stops, the love will never die

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