Poem for Austin

God, please help my family to mend
Don't let us break, but teach us to bend.
It has been a year of pain today,
A year since part of our hearts were ripped away.
365 days we have tried to cope,
To end the pain there is no hope.
We are left with the rest of our years,
To drown in, to try, to hide our tears.
Now oneday runs into another,
We hurt so much for father, mother, and younger brother.
14 short years we had our boy,
14 years he gave us laughter and joy.
His younger cousins looked up to him so,
I wish he was here to watch them grow.
We each go on the best we can,
One and all we miss our young man.
Oh what we'd give to see hs smiling face,
Just one more time feel his loving embrace.
We know he is watching from Heaven above,
I know he sends us his undying love.
I'll go to his graveside sometime today,
I go there alot and I sit and I pray.
Today I'll ask the Lord to show me a way,
To help his family, to know what to say.
My Son-in-law, grandson, and daughter I love,
Lord give us some guidance, some help from above.
Give us strength until our lives are through,
Teach us to give all of our pain to You.
It has been a year of pain today,
God our Father please ease it some way.