The Missing Name on the Cards

Lots of Love Always and Forever
Grandma and Grandpa Shea

It's been on every Christmas card
On each and every birthday card
The same message grandma's always wrote
For the late nineteen and a half years
Never thought anything of it
Any time it was wrote
Until the first birthday card I got
Where it wasn't wrote
She had stopped signing them
With Love Always and Forever
Grandma and Grandpa Shea
Instead now, they were missing a name
Grandma had started signing them simply from herself
Since you are no longer around
You are resting in your grave
Without even thinking, I grabbed a pen
And wrote your name right on in
It's a source of comfort
To help ease the pain
But it still isn't the same
It's on every birthday card
The past two Christmas cards
It's even on my graduation card
But it doesn't change a thing
IT's just another reminder of the horrible change
Those are still birthdays you missed
Christmases where you weren't there
And the first of many graduations you've missed
But in the end
As long as Grandma is still signing cards
I'll always see both your names on them
So you're no longer
The Missing Name of the Cards