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He Left Too Soon: A Poem About Losing a Child

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He Left Too Soon: A Poem About Losing a Child

He Left Too Soon
 
He left too soon— 
Lifting life from June,
Casting torrents of rain
 
His absence—
Breath of pain whose exhale can only bring
Heart heaving, this beating of tears

Breaking loose—
All hell in earth's upturned rupture, 
Death shoveling shadows over me

As I bend to lay flowers upon his name—
Inscribed and bronzed, 
A permanence come to stay
 
My love laced now with pain—
Standing over my son's grave,
Death's Derecho come to stay in my shadow.

He Left Too Soon
©Beth Brown, 2021

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