Big Families are Great

My Grandpa who I adored finished his earthly life on December 21, 2009. I will miss him dearly. When I think of his passing A poem I read comes to mind:

I am standing upon the seashore a ship at my side spreads her sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she is a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle one with another.
Then someone at my side says,"There, she is gone".
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight, that is all.
She is just as large is mast, hull, and spar as when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living frieght to her destined port.
Her diminshed size is in me, not in her.
Just at that moment someone at my side says,"There she is gone"
There are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout,"Here she comes!"

Grandpa, I thank you for the memories, I will treasure them for the rest of my life. Someday long from now I will sail away from this life, from the sight of those who love me here, and you will be on the other side saying," Here she comes!"