Gilbert (Bert) Luther Howington

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(Feb 11, 1954 - Aug 2, 1993)




August 2nd 1993







I'm Holding Out My Only Candle
What Else Can I do?....
It's Been Ten Long Years 
Since I last Talked With You.


Gilbert (Bert) Luther Howington Jr.


We Sat In Your Living Room
On A Bright And Sunny Day..
We Didn't Know That Death
Was Only A Day Away.
We Hadn't Seen Each Other
For Years and Months and Days
But GOD brought Us Together
To Say Goodbye, Cause That's God's Way


I'm Holding Out My Only Candle
What Else Can I do?....
It's Been Ten Long Years 
Since I last Talked With You.


And Then That Dreadful Morning
Laying Easy In My Bed
The Call, The Hurt, The Pain
Your Wife Saying You Were Dead


She Was Shocked and She Was Crying
She Didn't Know What To Do
I Thought She Was Mistaken
And Acting Like A Fool


I'm Holding Out My Only Candle
What Else Can I do?....
It's Been Ten Long Years
Since I last Talked With You.





On The Couch You Were Laying
Sickness All Around,
Then I Had To Do It
I Looked In Your Eyes and Found..


That In This Life... What's Important
Is Not Riches, Fame or Money
What I Found
What I Really found....
It's Just To Be Around.....


I'm Holding Out My Only Candle
What Else Can I do?....
It's Been Ten Long Years 
Since I last Talked With You.


Your Brother Jim Howington





To My Brother Bert, I Miss You.  I Have Not Forgotten.
I Remember baseball, finding out about girls,
family, and The Orange Bomb.
I Remember Our Secret Code to Use When We were
In Trouble.
How We Would Drop All And Rush To The Other.
You Did Not Give The Code...
I Guess You Forgot...
Or Didn't Want Help.
That's A Shame..




"Bert a Brother of Mine
I Thought I Knew Him Well
He Was Lost In His Own Existence
Lost In His Own Spell,
Some People Thought He was Laughing...
But You Could Not Really Tell
Most People Say That Bert Jumped...
But I think He Slipped and Fell."


Idea From Song "Adam"
By Greg Allman


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