My Forever Son: Grief, Love, & Healing After Losing a Child to Suicide

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Two white peony flowers partially open with touches of pink and green leaves, My Forever Son
Two blooming white peonies with hints of pink surrounded by lush green leaves, My Forever Son: Grief, Love, & Healing After Losing a Child to Suicide

My Forever Son: Grief, Love, & Healing After Losing a Child to Suicide

My Forever Son offers grief poems, reflections, and support for parents after child suicide loss, written by Beth Brown in memory of her son Dylan and the long work of living with love, grief, and healing.

Written in memory of Dylan Andrew Brown, March 19, 1992–June 25, 2012.

What You’ll Find Here

Grief, remembrance, & healing after losing a child to suicide

Start here: If you have just arrived in the aftermath of loss, begin with If You Just Lost Your Child.

For immediate support, visit Finding Immediate Support for Suicide Loss Survivors.

To better understand the landscape of this grief, read I Lost My Son to Suicide: Grief, Healing, and Hope for Bereaved Parents .

If guilt feels especially heavy, begin with Navigating Guilt After Suicide Loss.

If you would like to know more about me and the heart behind this work, you are warmly invited to visit the About page.

This is a place for grieving parents to rest, remember, and find words for what feels unspeakable. Here, sorrow is met with tenderness, and healing is honored as a long and faithful unfolding.

My Forever Son: Grief, love, and the long work of healing after child suicide loss.

In This Space

  • Garden photographs offer moments of stillness—small scenes of beauty, endurance, and quiet peace.
  • Poems trace the language of grief—love, bewilderment, longing, and the search for light.
  • Personal essays and reflections bear witness to loss while gently making room for meaning, memory, and hope.

Poems for Grieving Parents After Child Suicide Loss | My Forever Son

Poetic and literary reflections for parents grieving a child’s suicide, and for the people trying to love them well. I write from inside the loss: as Dylan’s mother, as a poet, and as a woman who first found language only after grief had emptied my spoken voice, silenced my guitar, and broken breath into weeping and keening. These poems enter the private life of a bereaved parent: the guilt, memory, longing, disbelief, love, and enduring bond that ordinary speech seldom reaches.

Read Poems for Grieving Parents After Child Suicide Loss

Author Bio

Smiling person with light brown hair wearing a blue denim shirt outdoors, author Beth Brown, My Forever Son
Author Beth Brown in her gardens, My Forever Son

Beth Brown is the writer behind My Forever Son, a grief and poetry blog written after the suicide death of her only child, Dylan, in 2012. She writes from the long aftermath of child suicide loss, carrying memory, love, guilt, longing, and the daily work of living after the death of a child.

A professor of rhetoric, composition, and literature, Beth brings a lifetime of reading, teaching, music, and close attention to language to poems first written in midnight journals. Her work grows from Dylan’s birthdays, memorial dates, holidays, gardens, weather, rooms, silence, and the altered landscape of long-term grief.

Through My Forever Son, Beth offers poems, reflections, and grief support for parents who have lost a child to suicide, and for the people who want to understand and support them with tenderness. Her Kindle poetry collection, Where a Mother’s Grief Resides: Poems of Child Loss and the Work of Living On, gathers this language of grief, love, and healing in one place.

If you would like to linger a little longer, these readings gather some of the pieces closest to the heart of this work.

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