Angel
(Lin's Song)
Chorus
I’m talking to an angel. She helps to guide my way.
She’s been there all my life, she’s never gone away.
She gives me what I need to make it through the day.
The strength to say to others, "There is another way."
When I was only seven and Lin was nine years old,
My life was changed forever. The story must be told.
Daddy had been drinking, was looking for a fight.
We knew that this was going to be a violent night.
Our home was not a place of love and tender care.
Violence and fear were all that we had there.
The one light of my life, my sister’s smiling face,
On that night would be taken to a better place.
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The yelling soon had started, we tried hard to ignore.
We didn’t want to have to deal with it no more.
And then my life exploded, a gunshot split the air,
And all that I could see was Linda lying there.
She looked into my eyes as if to say good-bye
I’ll never understand just why she had to die.
An accident they said. No one was made to pay.
That’s when I decided I had to get away.
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I’ve lived my life for love, and taught my kids the same.
Showed them a different path than the one from which I came.
No one should live in violence, no one should be abused.
Families should be loved, not hated, hurt and used.
If your life’s filled with hurt, listen to what I say.
I’ve been there and I know, there is another way.
You really can be free and be treated with respect.
Your heart will find a way if that’s what you expect.
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-Sher
-December 1, 1997
© 1997 Dear One Publications
Poem For Linda
(1957 - 1966)
I remember every detail
and every look on every face
all the smells and all the sounds
the saddest feel of our embrace
You were playing, as was I
in our young and innocent way
when the hate of "loving" parents
took your sweetest soul away
Holding you to me so close
watching life just slowly fade
the look of hurt upon your face
the crimson life from you cascade
All the years that happened after
all the tears I hold inside
will not wash you from my heart
nor can it take you from my side
For every picture that was taken
faking smiles upon your grave
for your heart I longed a teather
from this hate in me I saved
For the deeds that go unpunished
by the living ones who did
to your soul this great injustice
and in cowardice from it hid
Will not mute this deepest love
will not from my life erase
your sweetest smile my dearest sister
until again I see your face
For soon this life will be complete
as incomplete my life has been
and I will hold you to my heart
and ask that God forgive the sin
Of ones who would forget your time
upon this earth so briefly spent
and in your sweet untimely passing
refuse the time for your lament
So dearest Linda remember me
the one who washed your blood away
the one who loves you sister, truest,
will soon to you be on my way
Then we will hug and laugh again
and soon forget this long apart
and we will play the wind together
and you will warm my lonely heart
By: Charlie Young
All rights forever assigned to
Kathy Taylor Spivey
her heirs and
descendants.
Please visit my sister's pages
There's another picture of me at
~~Memories~~
A Birthday Poem for Linda
Many years have gone by, yes, thirty-one have now passed
Though here in my heart, time has not moved so fast
You're alive there today, as alive you can be
Though you're not on this earth, and your spirit roams free
Seems but a moment, since I bade you goodbye
Since I said my farewell, and began my long cry
It seems, Linda dear, as I look back and think
It happened so fast, you were gone in a blink
There was no time for words, that I wanted to say
But I know that you've heard, everything I since prayed
I've thanked you the years, that we shared, you and I
For the games that we played, everyday 'til you died
Every promise we made, to be friends, true and long
Was not made then in vain, our bond remains strong
I've lead my life since, in a way straight and proud
And I knew far above, that you watched from your cloud
And when I was sad, or when I was blue
I would look into Heaven, and there I'd see you
You were perched like a bird, in your angel wings white
Then my days became clear, and happy, and bright
You cheered me in times, and in ways I delight
You were there by my side, on my days filled with fright
You were holding my hand, I could feel your warm glow
You were giving me hope, there's no doubt, this I know
To say I've not missed you, with me on this Earth
Is not true, I have loved you each day since my birth
But I do know you're safe, in His arms far above
And one day soon, we'll again, share our sisterly love
So for you, on this birthday, I'll say it in rhyme
Though I've prayed it to you, a million-plus times
That dear Sister you are, still my best friend of all
In this heart, you will stay, 'til I get His sweet call
So though we're apart, now, in time and in space
You dwell in my soul, in your own special place
A place that is ours, no one else has the key
Only God, can that open, when my spirit He frees
And that day, when we meet, that day I will smile
In a way that I haven't, since I was a child
I'll take your dear arms, Linda, hold you to me
And with you, forever, playmates again be
And those that did kill you, those who tried us to part
Did fail in this evil, for we've lived in OneHeart
We've shared but OneSoul, and OneLove by God's grace
And the future Eternal, we will live in His Place
With Love for you and Linda,
Jay:)
© 1997 JAYGEE01
Happy Birthday, Linda! From: Sher!
Sweet Sister Linda
I found Linda's Address
On a paper once white, but now faded with age
I found Linda's name, on a scrap from a page
It was simply her name, others owned it before
But for me once again, it pushed open the door
The door was ajar, from within t'was a light
And it cast its warm glow, and warmed up the night
It stirred in my heart feelings close, feelings near
And thoughts once again of an angel so dear
Of an earth that still wept for the loss it endured
Of the Heaven that smiled when that spirit did soar
Of a sister who cried, little one, do not go
Stay here in my arms, and together let's grow
I turned my head slowly, looked down at the sheet
And there in faint line, the place her to meet
My hands trembled so as i went to that place
Linda's Place, I did find, that page with her face
I paid my respects, and said my good bye
I left as i came, with a tear in my eye
Not for her, that now lives in peace so sublime
But for us that remain on this Earth, at this time
© 1998 JAYGEE01
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