Standing Together

(Memorial Poems - In Loving Memory Poems)

Most treasured moments of days in the past

The longings, the tears, they just seemed to last.

The dark places my heart sees, go on and on

The joys of life, no longer belong.

To any of us who have lost a child

The days are dark, the nights are wild

We are a group of people that see

A pain in life that no other can see.

Our loss is deep, our loss endures

Our lose is a pain that there is no cure.

We look the same to others, that see

Our days continue with lives that be.

But we’re not the same - so deeply changed

So scared and hurt, our hearts are maimed

We grope and struggle to find our way

To find a purpose for every day

When all we want is what we had

To be a mom, to be a dad

To our child, no longer to be,

Our joy, our treasure, our legacy

We search for strength, for air to breath

We look for meaning in what we see

Hold on to each other and bare our tears

We stay together, through out the years

A tragic bond that brings us here

Our hearts are broken, we come to share

To help each other to bare this pain

So maybe one day, we’ll feel sane again.

~ Joan Sheloff