Loss Poem

Losing Husband To Cancer

I wrote this poem to my husband Mike, who died last year after a brave fight with cancer.

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This time last week my partner was brutally murdered. Why?? We don't know. J thinks it had something to do with my daughter's car. I looked out of the window. There was a boy smashing her...

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Miss You So

Published by Family Friend Poems May 2008 with permission of the author.

Today I gave you roses.
I gave you thirty three,
one red rose for every year
that you shared with me.
As I placed them on your grave,
my tears fell silently
for the man I truly loved
who is now just a memory.
I know those roses
will slowly wither away,
but a memory so precious
with me will always stay.
It will never ease the sadness
or the pain I've come to know,
for no matter how much time
goes by,
I will always miss you so.

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by Mariahughes
3 years ago

This time last week my partner was brutally murdered. Why?? We don't know. J thinks it had something to do with my daughter's car. I looked out of the window. There was a boy smashing her car. She ran down as there was a girl she knew. I told her not to go down. I phoned the police. She did go down, and her dad followed and ended up being stabbed to death. The court case still hasn't come. I feel so alone. I want to be with him, but I have a daughter.

by Wendy
8 years ago

My husband has passed away with cancer and we have been together 33 years. I was looking for a poem to fit what I was feeling and this one fit exactly.

by Gypsy Hodgkinson Dee
8 years ago

I love this poem because I lost my granddad and we take flowers to him I miss him dearly . :) but I know he will be happy now that he is not in pain any more

by Arlene Daniels
9 years ago

I miss my husband so much, he passed away 4 years ago only 8 days after being diagnosed with cancer.
Now I find it so hard to go on even though I have six kids and 20 grandkids and 4 great grandkids still I feel alone. I try to do some of the social things we used to do but I am not enjoying it and just can't wait to get home, I do not miss sex much but I miss his big arms and hands around me and all over my body. He had an aura around him and his hands were so warm that when he touched my face he could soothe my worst headache and his massages fixed whatever my body needed fixed . WHEN WE MEET AGAIN MY LOVE....YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING
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by Jennie, Greenford
10 years ago

Such a poignant poem, touched me deeply as I am sure it has for every one who has lost someone.
I lost my dad in 2006 and miss him deeply. X

by Nadia
14 years ago

my granddad was told he had lung cancer lasts year and that he would have years to live but sadly passed away this year in April he was the only person that I was really close to in my family. his death was hard as I miss a lot of school and one family member made it hard for all of us. I have only just started to see that he is no longer in pain and in a better place watching me. but it still does not change the fact that I miss him :-}

by jessica troxell
14 years ago

this story has touched me lot because I have lost a lot of people in my life and reading this makes memories come back and I will never forget them.