Glitter

You spent all day picking up fine glitter

On hands and knees with tweezers

Because you said a vacuum wouldn’t get them all

They fell off our sparkly dresses

Which we had promised we wouldn’t wear

You held us even then

With a smile on your wrinkled shallow face

But it glowed and shined nonetheless

You only ever smiled when I was a kid

I hear people say you loved us dear but I never say it much

I see you know in the ground

In the casket we laid down our glitter

Glitter over the coffin and on your sides

Putting you in our memory from those gold flakes

I laid a rose then sprinkled soft sparkles

Sparkles that shone telling new tales that I was too young to see

As a reminder that you were good

A great grandpa that I will never forget

I looked at you that day and saw your frail frame

I felt your power and poured in more glitter

I sat in service with tears on cheeks full of potential glitter 

Running down my young face, like yours was all those years ago

A flag was lowered and your casket closed

Along with the casket, my heart broke

I wish I had put more glitter in your life

Since you gave me so much sparkle

So I wish that glitter wasn’t my last goodbye