Tag: mourning
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To My Children Not Yet Born
To my children not yet born;Goodbye.I will think of you,I will dream of you,I will miss you,I will mourn you,I will carry your silkenmemoriesin the furrows of my faceas I cry for you.Goodbye.To my children not yet born;I am sorry.I cannot be your mother,I cannot rock you,I cannot kiss your bruises,I cannot read you stories,I…
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Third of Three
I never met you, But I miss you, You don’t exist, But I kiss you in my dreams, I set aside a portion of my heart, Swaddled it in endless love, And engraved it with your name, But you never came to be, And so I miss you. Destined now to grieve eternally, For all…
dreams, grief, grieving, hurt, life, loss of a child, love, miscarriage, motherhood, mourning, pain, poetry, pregnancy, sadness -
Foreverie
Once upon the daylight blue, A longing was drawn in vivid hues, And sat lucid in her reverie, For times that she and he once knew. Painted on her memory’s eye, Thoughts flittered like a butterfly, They tickled at the brink of truth, And swaddled her mind in a dulcet lie. He no longer walks…
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Dawn Requiem
The night has taken me now and it is morning. A day of mourning. Your tears as dew drops on the blades of grass at dawn, Your sighs the gentle wind that dances with the trees, My funeral song resounding as the birds begin to sing. Remember me each day and I have not died…
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Angel at the Gates
Heaven opened it’s gates and God called for our angel to find her way home, A chorus rang out through our world, And she passed, finding peace never known. Then our angel, she stopped at the gates, She paused there with one step to go, She rested her hand on her heart and looked back…
Serena Malcolm 