Why Was He Taken
When God took him away
It broke this father's lonely heart
On that very tragic day
I thought I heard God speak to me
From all the way up there
He said that in my memories
I'd find him everywhere
He'd call to me, I'd call to him
I would not be alone
Despite that sudden moment when
God called him to his own
Yet why would God in all his might
Create such pain and strife
By taking him away like that
And ending his young life
God must have loved my boy so much
He could not bear to wait
Until he grew to be a man
However good and great
And now I'm told I must not ask
The reason and the why
I must accept my bitter fate
Until the day I die
But ask I do, I seek to know
The reason and the why
To no avail, I cannot learn
What plans are way up high
I'm only told that I must wait
Until my life is done
So I will wait in grief and pain
Until again I meet my son
And when that day arrives at last
I want to ask God why
He took my boy without a word
Leaving me to mourn and cry.
In loving memory of Eric Adler
June 17, 1996 - February 27, 2001
