Why?   Ya know there's another angel in heaven Another life, despite the tears I cry The fears I may demise inside me When I saw all the love Felt the closeness of hearts Saw my uncle breakdown and need Is it a greed to want someone back?   Don't hold back the cries Don't hold back the why's why would this happen? 18 years of memories all ending with metal and bark   Just one more angel in heaven Just one more loss in my life In everyone's lives And still the tears will fall and I clench my fist and pound my chest as they laid him to rest under a blanket of snow No one knows...   Hit me hard Once I saw the peoples my little cousin more like my lil brother and I'll always cry even if at 8 years old I held back when my own brother died   And then I think... I have two other brothers to fall back on in this time And yet my older of the two cousins Andy Must pay for this crime And he asks himself why and over and over we try to understand to lend a hand in this tragedy   Yet Brian My little Brian, tears run down my cheek So much life, so many smiles so many miles we all must tread As he laid there dead on some snow against a tree why him.... and not me   By Kelly C. O'Donnell ©2000   Dedicated to my little cousin Brian Patrick O'Donnell Died 1-15-2000 18 years old