Shawn Benjamin Slater

September 1, 1987 - September 12, 2005

A FISHING TREASUREToday you would be twenty-fiveIf you were yet alive.These seven years have almost gone by.Remembering you still makes me cry.Such a handsome smiling face.How I miss your strong embrace.Longing... Yep, it’s selfish, I know.But strong emotions just won’t let go.Your fishing photo on my refrigerator door,Stirs my memories all the more.You caught that bass with your bare hands,From atop the water, I barely understand.Yet, like your own life, drawn up in a second;God called you home in answer to His beckon.Happy Birthday we say to you!Thanking God for your life anew!By Berdie SlaterGreater is one’s day of death than the day of one’s birth.Ecclesiastes 7:1aRemembering andRejoicing for yourEternal Life.