Death Not Won Poem by Dean du Preez

Death came to take you away,
My tomorrows are no longer like my yesterdays.

I was free and now i feel trapped,
In the face by life I've been slapped.

My child was perfect only two years and a month old to the day,
Death o death why did you have to take him away? !

3 years on i am thankfully doing alright,
when there was a time i could only stay awake at night.

Time is a healer, but a heavy hand was dealt,
When my child was taken away, it was the only thing i felt.

But if i can make it without bringing myself to ruin,
Anyone can because life is life, but you sing your own tune.

Getting through the beginning is really the hardest part,
And i could not have made you more beautiful even if i was to design you from the start.

Life is life, and things take place which make us smile and cry,
So i take one with the other because i too will live before i die.