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Isis
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since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

0 posted 2007-02-25 04:10 PM


At the cemetary the overcast sky shadowed my own mood,

A black pit of remorse and anguish settle over the people and the gravestones.

The sun unseen, the dead unseen, the trees today merely cold wood

Today it is not a place of rest and honour merely a land of grey tones.


Faded Christmas flowers, posies and decorations

Hung lifeless on walls and headstones.

They did nothing wrong

Why should they have to atone?


I held life in my hands, in the mask of many coloured flowers

Their colour a gift today, bright against the black.

Together we tended her grave,

And wished for the millionth time we could have her back.


My fathers face somehow skeletal in the gloom

Showed veiled pain and continued grief

A wedding anniversary remembered yet celebrated alone

Isn't right and brings no relief.


The rain in the distance moves slowly and menacingly in

It's first drops like tears from heaven above.

The flowers in the brass vase are threatened by a hungry wind

As Dad and I murmur our unending words of love.


Forced by rain we flee our angels side

Running to the car as if to hide

And as I run I murmur one last time

I love you Mum, I miss you by my side.


It was then I felt warming presence

A simple touch on my shoulder

A touch filled with love neverending

A brief light for when the dark emotions smoulder.


We came to her and she returned in same

A brief heartbeat bathed in love

A love so strong it self immortal

A brief encounter with my angel above.

*~ Love and Compassion are the moral fabric of world peace. ~*

© Copyright 2007 Isis - All Rights Reserved
arthur
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since 2001-08-14
Posts 678
england
1 posted 2007-02-26 03:38 PM


you were indeed fortunte to have -however briefly-a moment of contact
The pain never goes away
You just get better at dealing with it
And ,if you are brave,you realise that for there sake-you must live life well
arthur
Ps: i enjoy this poem

ivordavies
Senior Member
since 2007-01-10
Posts 739
Chester, England
2 posted 2007-02-26 06:03 PM


It was then I felt warming presence

A simple touch on my shoulder

A touch filled with love never ending

A brief light for when the dark emotions smoulder.


Isis

2 years is such a short time and as Arthur says, the pain never goes away.  Your poetry and experiences, however, are living proof of how close our loved ones stay.

Never put these fleeting moments down to imagination, the love that allowed you to let your mum continue on, is the same love that keeps you close.

I only wish more people would speak out about their awareness of those who they have lost...

Ivor

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