Granny, Why?

Granny, Why?

Granny, why'd you have to go?
Please, tell me; I need to know.

I am sad today
As I think of you;
I am all alone
And feeling so blue.

I wish we had spent
More time together;
So, I'd have mem'ries
To last forever.

I imagine us
Sharing one on one
Our thoughts and our dreams,
But our time is done.

Granny, why'd you have to go?
Please, tell me; I need to know.

I think of the past
And all that you've seen;
Changes that were made -
You had not foreseen.

And I would ask you
How they came about -
Conveniences, now,
That you lived without.

I wonder just what
You'd tell me of life -
Like when you met Gramps
And became his wife.

Granny, why'd you have to go?
Please, tell me; I need to know.

I wish on the stars -
The first ones of night -
Hoping to see you
In one of 'em's light.

But the skies are blank
'Cause there's nothing there;
Emptiness abounds -
Even in my stare.

I can only pray
That we'll meet again
In another time -
Perhaps, in Heaven.

Granny, why'd you have to go?
Please, tell me; I need to know.

Written by:  Robyn Lynne Stacey
Date: October 14-17, 1998

Dedicated, in loving memory, to Granny Stacy - Ruby Lee (White) Stac(e)y