my world is a lot emptier today...

there was a man there from the start,
who always has a place in my heart.
a man who loved me soo much from far away
it was like i saw him everday.
he's gone forever and out of my life,
this loss so hard i cannot cry.
he only wanted the best from me,
and now my best he'll never see.

he's gone from this lung disease,
gone so soon but now in peace.
i regret not being there at his side,
not showing the love i chose to hide.
he was my hero, my support, my Ninong Jack,
from the second i was born he had my back.
i took for grant this great man,
i only cared about that check getting to my hand.
my selfishness was all i could see,
nothing else, no one else but me.

now he's gone and theres nothing sent,
oh how i regret, not having time we could have spent-
together. while i was growing up,
to see his smile, him laugh, and remember a hiccup.
all i remember is he is my Ninong Jack,
the godfather who always had my back.

Monday is when he was taken away,
never to return, but us wanting him to stay.
when i found out he wasn't coming back,
i was speechless, dumbfounded, i wanted Ninong Jack.

R.I.P John "Jack" Silva
Monday July 14, 2008

"during the time i am supposed to be changing lives....no one knows how much you have changed mine"