When tomorrow starts without you and you're not here to see how very much I loved you and how precious and dear you are to me, all I ask is that you just remember me.

You were my life, my friend, and my only love. You were the strength that kept me going through the good times and the bad. You pushed me and encouraged me to be the person I needed to be. So when tomorrow starts without you, just remember me.

I love you and I miss you and I think about you every day. I have your pictures and memories, but that is just not the same. I talk to you often and visit your grave, but it's so hard to realize that you're really gone. At times I feel your presence letting me know everything will be okay. So when tomorrow starts without you, and you're not here to see, just always remember me.

Life is so hard without you and I've cried a million tears just wishing and waiting for you to come back to me. It's so hard to give you up and that's one thing I don't really want to do, but I know it's really final that you're really, truly gone. For this, I'm really trying, but it's very hard to do, to go with life just as you would want me to do. You left so many things unfinished and so many things to do, so it's just so hard to imagine what you would do.  So when tomorrow starts without you and you're not here to see just be my Guardian Angel and remember to look out for me.

I know you're safe in heaven without the cancer and the pain and you have a heavenly body, but I miss you just the same. I know you're safe with Jesus and have seen him face to face, and are rejoicing with your loved ones and all the other saints who have been called home. I know that you're singing in that heavenly choir, and that you're probably singing Amazing Grace and how he set you free the loudest of all. So when tomorrow starts without you and you're not here to see, just always remember me.

I know you have a mansion and are walking on streets of gold, and that you'll never be sick again and you'll never grow old. I'm waiting patiently to enter those pearly gates so we can be together in that heavenly place. We'll have a lot to talk about and loved ones to see, and we'll get to stroll together one more time. So when tomorrow starts without you and you're not here to see, just remember that I'll always love you and no one can take your place.  So please just remember to watch out for me.

I love you with all my heart and miss you more than you know. I often wish for just one more day with you and imagine how it would be. I would tell you that I love you and ask you not to leave me as we have all our tomorrows with so many plans and things to do. So if my love for you could build a stairway and my memories a lane, I'd walk all the way to heaven to bring you back to me, but since that is impossible and cannot be, all I ask is that when tomorrow starts without you that you just always remember me.

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