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thenewgreen · 4335 days ago · link · · parent · post: I'm a crummy poet, but I'm writing a poem a day for 2013
My sympathies. My wife lost her mom when she was 12 and I know from her that it cuts extremely deep. Keep the poems coming, you have an appreciative audience enjoying them.That stuff runs very deep.
littlebirdie · 4334 days ago · link ·
When we lose a parent, our connection to the past is broken. When we lose a child, our connection to the future fades. We are nothing but ellipses, one focal point two steps ahead, the other two steps behind.