Poems

A Broken Heart That Speaks.
Jackie Longworth

I feel more depressed  Each day when I awake
I wish to God you could tell me There has been a big mistake.
My darling child was taken From her mothers love
To live with the angels In heaven up above.

I did not have her with me For the time I should have had
No longer can I hold her Which makes me very sad.
The pain of losing my baby   Shows in every single tear
I spend each day missing you Longing to have you near.

Life for me is lonely now   Without you by my side
My Broken shattered heart    Is very hard to hide.
People tell me that time is a healer   That the pain will go away,
They don't understand     That this pain is here to stay.

For when you lose a child    There is nothing that can compare
The bond we had at their birth  Will never leave, it's always there.
The love a mother has  Funs so very deep
That love is so special   It's in her heart to keep.

A mother's heart is broken   She is ripped apart inside
There is a part of her missing    It left when her child died.
So please don't tell me to get over it       For this I can not do
Unless you understand my feelings         And this has happened to you

Only another mother who has lost a child    Can understand my pain
Because they also suffer daily    As the memories of their child remain
We are a band of mothers    Whose hearts will never heal.
For the loss of our children       Is for us, so very real.

written by Jackie Longworth.
  

Tread gently near the tender souls
Who have lost a child
Who's hearts are bruised and bleeding.
For living comes slowly
With pain in every forward step.

Tears in every backward look.
So much love still flows for that special one
Arms reach out to hold and back to cling
But reach forward humbly
Fearful of forgetting 
Or being disloyal by going on
There is guilt in laughter
Feeling pleasure
Even being alive.

There are questions, longing, heataches
But slowly, surely strength in our own time.
Not in an answer, not as forgetting
But as acceptance.
That this pain
This loss in ours

To live with and sonehow
ours to use to help others
When we are farther along in our journey of grief
To help others
Who's journey of heartache as just begun

“Grief is a solitary journey.
No one but you knows how great the hurt is.
No one but you can know
the gaping hole left in your life
when someone you know has died.

And no one but you can mourn
the silence that was once filled with laughter and song.
It is the nature of love and of death
to touch every person in a totally unique way.

Comfort comes from knowing
that people have made the same journey.
And solace comes from understanding
how others have learned to sing again.”

TODAY I  CRIED

...by Christine Ross in memory of Lucas Christopher Ross 1979 -  2001

Today, I cried
Because you died.

Today, I smiled
For  just awhile.

Today, I laughed
And then I gasped.

Today, I  cried
Because I laughed.

© 2003 - Christine Ross

A Mothers Torment
By Laurie Dougherty (Jeff's Sister)

A Mother sits alone and cries,  For the son that she has lost
And she vows to get him back one day, no matter what the cost
For you see they took him from her  And she found out far too late
They only wanted a sacrifice, to satisfy their hate

She searched for truth and justice
But was met with hostile stares
Till she finally faced the ugly fact
That no one really cared

And as they take her son away
she hangs her head to cry
For they jury made a decision
They've sentenced him to die

But still she's searching for the truth
Though no one hears her plea
And she knows she'll never give up her fight
They the day they set him free

The Life He Lives
By Laurie Dougherty

 He sits alone inside his cell,
as his tears silently fall
He hates this life he’s forced to live
and wishes to end it all

For he did nothing wrong
Can’t they understand
They closed their ears to him
Yet believed another man

 He doesn’t know how this can be
And asks the question why
They turn their heads and walk away
They’ve left him there to die

 No one else has listened
So he turns to God to pray
For comfort and understanding
Till they learn the truth someday