THE GREATEST MAN I EVER KNEW (HAPPY BIRTHDAY)

THE GREATEST MAN I EVER KNEW (HAPPY BIRTHDAY)

Eighty-eight years ago your spirit was born on this day,

Oh how I wish I could have walked beside you every step of the way,

This should be a happy day, one where we remember the stories you’d tell,

I can recall laughing at your tales of how you once raised hell,

I loved listening to your accounts of the war and the places you’d been,

All are fond memories that I carry within,

I could always distinguish between stories of truth and the cock-and-bull,

You can’t tell me that mouse spoke to you one winter’s night I’m no fool,

I loved to hear your laugh as you sat and watched television in your chair,

You were a great man Grandpa, always there,

You were an honest man, who’d always share,

And though you were tough skinned, you were a sympathetic man, who cared,

Qualities seldom found in folks these days,

I speak for all of your family when I say we miss you in so many ways,

As I said before, we should be happy today with memories of you and not mourn,

For on this day, eighty-eight years ago, the greatest man I’ve ever met was born,

Your spirit to this day is alive and well I feel it all around me,

Today is a celebration of your life and we all should be thankful and happy,

That we each were a part of it,

With that said, it pretty well sums up the heart of it.

One last thing Grandpa, Happy Birthday to you,

The greatest man I ever knew.

-brad