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jellybeans
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0 posted 2004-02-18 11:04 AM


Always a coffee drinker, I was not after the taste
so much, but the much needed drug.

My son, my baby boy that life turned into a man
much too soon, took time off work one day,
showing up with gift in hand - a cup of coffee,

a cup of that really really good much too expensive
for a momma working to make ends meet coffee.

One taste and my mouth was in heaven...
oh my...I was obviously thinking...coffee this good
should be sinful; his eyes glowed with the pleasure
of my delight.

We grew up within a smile shortage and so
to even the scales, God gifted him with a smile
contagious and my Chris always found ways
to spread it.

Last year at twenty-nine, my baby left this earth
and for all the time that I am chained to this earth,
November’s days will black as coffee be, but coffee
will forever hold his smiling memory.


[This message has been edited by jellybeans (02-19-2004 09:23 AM).]

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2 posted 2004-02-18 11:08 AM


oh, this touched me so....
heart hugs to you for this beautiful expression of love.

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3 posted 2004-02-18 11:12 AM


Then drink up, my friend... and enjoy every smile. *S*

This touches me so much... reminds me of how he remembered and celebrated you with the little things that felt so big to the heart.

Beautiful work...

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4 posted 2004-02-18 11:13 AM


always from the heart my friend..as are my thoughts for you at such times..


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5 posted 2004-02-18 12:55 PM


jellybeans, you are definitely gourmet

wonderful touching write

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6 posted 2004-02-18 01:32 PM


JellyGirl~
It's often difficult for me to read these pieces without tears ... so I can just imagine the difficulty for you in penning them~

If sharing helps (and I believe that it does) ... know that as you share these feelings with those of us who love you ... you give us a tender look into the depth of a mother's loss~

Love you~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~




~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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7 posted 2004-02-18 02:47 PM


thank you all so much, and yes my sharing is from the depths, every parent knows that depth...there is so much I don't want to forget...sigh...and so I write, even though its hard....thank you for the caring reception of my pain
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8 posted 2004-02-18 09:58 PM


i feel this down to my soul...
and it could not be more beautifully expressed....
i know those "Novembers" of my own life,
a pain shared...

and my friendship extended to you in a huge hug

~Dawn

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jellybeans
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10 posted 2004-02-19 09:24 AM


thank you both, and muted, yes I understood from toe's poem that you also have a loss that you are dealing with, sending hugs back...


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11 posted 2004-02-21 07:56 PM


Jellybeans, Chris, I am sure would have enjoyed your words, and the smile you leave us with in the end.  Thanks for sharing this cup with us.  
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12 posted 2004-02-21 08:24 PM


can I just say ?
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13 posted 2004-02-21 08:38 PM


Ah...The sweet nature of a mothers love
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14 posted 2004-02-21 08:51 PM



Such a sad story

Wonderful to have a smell that will always
be around, that reminds you of your
dear child


Blessings to you Jelly Beans

Thank You for sharing this


Richy


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15 posted 2004-02-21 09:55 PM


It is a terrible thing to love that which death can touch, hard to live without taking the risk, harder still to untangle the feelings to serve them for our understanding.

I salute you.


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Tender

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
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