Music Inspired: Grandpa’s Song

I learned this song for you, Grandpa.
You lived to “see” your seventy seventh birthday, if one could call it that. I wouldn’t. By that point you were an empty body, hardly cognizant of the world, absent to the daily routine we all kept to watch over your bed. I took the afternoon shifts so I could sit with you, even if you never woke. I learned this song to say goodbye.