Brother of: Spencer and Cierra

Born: July 3, 1990

Died: April 22, 2004

Cause of Death: Fanconi Anemia, Post Transplant Complications

Buried: Beswick Cemetery

Matt's poem:
Written 4 months before he died

What is Love?

What can make you feel the best and make you feel grand?

What can make you feel as great as walking on the beach and sand?

What can make you feel happy and never feel sad?

What can make you feel good and never feel bad?

What can pick you up whenever your down?

And when your lost, what can make you be found?

What can change your life for the rest of your days?

What can change your life in so many ways?

What can keep you in a good mood?

What can make you polite and never be rude?

What is the greatest creation God made?

What will never, ever fade?

What is in the past, present, and future to come?

What is definitely never numb?

What can make you feel like your walking on air?

What is I hope-never rare?

What is very soft and very kind?

What is the greatest thing to find?

What is the grandest thing you can feel, and when you are hurt, what can make you heal?

What feels like heaven, not like hell?

What flows deeper than a wishing well?

What comes from the heart, when it is true?

What, no matter how old, is always new?

What is like the sea, mysterious and deep?

What is like something you always want to keep?

What can take away every single tear?

And, no matter how far apart, what is always near?

What has changed the world over time?

What has overcome evil, sin, and crime?

What is like a river, that flows gracefully and smooth?

What is something that completes the soul?

What is something that fills in the heart, that hole?

What is something that fills you with glee?

What is something that will always be?

What has to have a pair for it to work right?

What is always there in the morning, day, and night?

What is like the sun that shines very bright?

What is like the sunset, a beautiful sight?

What is this feeling I get everyday?

When I am with you, I feel this way.

What makes you feel as high as a dove?

The answer to these questions, the answer is love.

By: Matthew Lindenmayer
12-07-03
Age 13