WishingWell
Well-known member
A Reply to No Note
Dearest Jon,
I sit here and now
And ask the world around me how
A man like you so full of laughter
Could trade his life for what comes after.
Your face was never known to me
Nor your short life and destiny
So beautiful in every way
Why did you take your life that day?
The magazine I'm putting back
With all the others on the rack
And I will sometimes think of you--
A person whom I never knew.
Time will pass and Heaven's when
We chance to meet--but until then
I'll leave you with this afterthought
About the happiness you sought--
In your dull dreams and never found
I wish you could have looked around
And found me feeling just that way
And I still feel like that today.
So when I die
Our hearts might link--
It may be sooner
Than you think!
For Jonathan Peck, Gregory Peck's son,
who committed suicide in the mid-1970's.
I read about it in a magazine while waiting
for an appointment.
Dearest Jon,
I sit here and now
And ask the world around me how
A man like you so full of laughter
Could trade his life for what comes after.
Your face was never known to me
Nor your short life and destiny
So beautiful in every way
Why did you take your life that day?
The magazine I'm putting back
With all the others on the rack
And I will sometimes think of you--
A person whom I never knew.
Time will pass and Heaven's when
We chance to meet--but until then
I'll leave you with this afterthought
About the happiness you sought--
In your dull dreams and never found
I wish you could have looked around
And found me feeling just that way
And I still feel like that today.
So when I die
Our hearts might link--
It may be sooner
Than you think!
For Jonathan Peck, Gregory Peck's son,
who committed suicide in the mid-1970's.
I read about it in a magazine while waiting
for an appointment.
