I sit here and think of the days gone by//
pinching the inside of my checks trying not the cry//
i told myself along time ago//
that no matter what i would hold in all this sorrow//

As i flip through old pictures that i kept locked away//
i remember how this young girl's smile lightened my day//
she use to run around with out a single care//
with little brown curls just like her dad's hair//

We knew from day one she'd be a magnificent star//
but for now she'd stick to stepping on those little blobs of tar//
A true drama queen right from the start//
bealting out made up songs from her little gold heart//

If asked a year ago what life would be without my little sweet-tart//
i wouldnt even be able to start, shes my whole life she owns my whole heart//
She spent every dark night with me cuddled in bed//
I'd lay there and pray to god to bless every curled hair on her head//

Maybe god didnt hear my many prayers to keep her under his wing//
because the doctor informed me that no longer was i going to hear her sing//
she had an estimated one year left of life//
and there was nothing to save her not even my own life//

That last ten months and a half we did everything together we were never apart//
it was the last time that i had everything around that filled my heart//
we did everything we wanted no questions asked at all//
even made our own record titled "the rise of an angel in fall"//

Forever and always this bubbly little girl will have a great chunk of me//
and every night of my life i will be found dreaming of her just sitting on my knee//
Shes the one who taught me all about love//
Shes the one who will be there waiting for me when i too make my journey to up above...

This is for Nyla my daughter who passed away at the age of 2

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