Darkness cloaks sun’s lightDeath irrevocably snuffs out breath of lifeTwo pregnant sisters, one hot summer dayTwo sons born, only one lives todayThirty plus love and life filled years betweenThen history replays the cruelest of scenesOnly this time fate reverses their roleSame two sisters, one cold winter dayTwo granddaughtersOne celebrated arrival, one tearful goodbyeGrief shows no Read More
Death. Darkness. Gone. Forever. Blackness rolls in, suffocating fog Vengeful hands squeeze hard No air, No air Silent screams travel nowhere Who hears the heart-wrenching pleas? No-one. No-one. Violent pain, heart numbing woe Where to go? No escape, death has struck Final. Done. No More. Salted tears stain my face Hope has gone, far, far Read More
Sun shines bright on a glorious day, Clouds in her heart will not go away Grief seems her constant friend, Replaying her loss, again and again Plucked away Read More
Babies seemed to happen for everyone else so naturally, not for Mandy. Joyful anticipation soon turned to sorrow. Everywhere she turned, the rounded bellies of expectant mothers only intensified Mandy’s feelings of failure. Her heart desired to kiss the soft down of hair on her infant’s head, inhaling the newborn scent while holding him or her close. Read More
Dearest Terri, It’s been nine short or long months, depending on perspective, since you left us, and God! how I still miss you so much. Read More
We may not have shared blood, but Terri, you were my sister, and your absence will leave a gaping hole in my heart and in this world. I love you. Read More
