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“He Left Too Soon” Poem: A Mother’s Deep Sorrow

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“He Left Too Soon, Lifting Life from June” Poem: A Mother’s Deep Sorrow

Key Takeaways

  • “He Left Too Soon” Poem: A Mother’s Deep Sorrow delves into grief over losing a child to suicide.
  • Author Beth Brown shares her personal experience of loss, offering solace to others facing similar tragedies.
  • The poem captures the complexities of mourning, love, and remembrance in the wake of overwhelming sorrow.
  • Additionally, the companion book, *Bury My Heart*, provides poems for healing after losing a child to suicide.
  • The poem expresses profound emotions, linking literature and personal grief through powerful poetic language.

Summary

“He Left Too Soon” is a poem about the profound sorrow and anguish of losing a child to suicide. The author, Beth Brown, shares her personal experience of grief and healing after losing her son, Dylan, to suicide. Through her writing, she explores the complexities of loss, remembrance, and love, offering solace to others who have experienced similar tragedies.

Introduction

“He Left Too Soon” Poem: A Mother’s Deep Sorrow is a poignant poem that bravely addresses the profound sorrow and anguish that comes with losing a beloved child to suicide. The poem aims to express the deep and complex emotions of grief, loss, and yearning, capturing the overwhelming turmoil that families face during such an unimaginable tragedy.

FROM THE AUTHOR: The inspiration for the poem, “He Left Too Soon,” delves into the profound depths of early, acute grief following the heartbreaking loss of my son to suicide. This piece encapsulates themes of grief, mourning, remembrance, and the enduring love that persists even in the face of overwhelming sorrow.

The companion book, Bury My Heart: 19 Poems for Grief and Healing After Losing A Child to Suicide, serves as both a tribute and a healing tool, guiding readers through their grief journey while offering solace through shared experiences and emotions. These poems illuminate the often-unspoken aspects of sorrow, providing a voice to those who feel isolated in their pain.

An in-depth exploration of grief in the poem, “He Left Too Soon,” appears in Derecho: A Storm Out of Nowhere- A Poem on Loss. Read on for resources and support, and read on to find the inspiration for the poem on a mother’s deep sorrow: “He Left Too Soon.”

My Forever Son

Woman in brown coat kneeling at her son's grave, a bronze plaque with red and white flowers in an attached vase, My Forever Son, He Left Too Soon: A Mother's Grief Poem

My Forever Son explores the profound grief, hope, and healing that follow the tragedy of losing a child to suicide.

My Forever Son dovetails the author’s journey of descending into deep grief, searching for hope, and finding healing along the way.

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A vibrant pink azalea blossom, symbolizing beauty amidst grief and reflection, “He Left Too Soon” Poem: A Mother’s Deep Sorrow, My Forever Son

Inspiration for the Poem: “He Left Too Soon”

I didn’t know how heavy grief feels. How losing a child can pull breath and life from you. How grief lives everywhere inside you when you lose a child to suicide.

Beth Brown, “He Left Too Soon” Poem: A Mother’s Deep Sorrow, My Forever Son

The Story of a Mother’s Deep Sorrow

I grew up, like most kids, reading books that romanticized suicide. Romeo and Juliet, a tragic love story, embeds a forever sense of loss and longing in the reader–or at least it did for me when I read Shakespeare’s play. I didn’t realize this until much later in life. The stigma of suicide still exists shrouded in vapors of mystery, intrigue, shame, and desperate love.

In college, I studied Asian history. The Tokugawa period. Seppuku. “Harakiri” in American English slang. Ritualistic Japanese suicide developed as a form of punishment for samurai who committed serious crimes. Deep shame. Suicide as a weapon to self-inflict death. I hate that I know this.

I continued reading voraciously, consuming books for school (Anne Frank, authors Virginia Wolfe, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, poets, and so on). I read books filled with deep emotions, connecting to my own turbulent feelings as a teenager, and only realized in graduate school how so many authors, writers, and poets wrote about ache and sorrow, sadness and despair. Many of my favorite writers took their lives at a young age. Poetry clung to me like a second soul. The words in poems shaped ideas and feelings I understood because of the poetic language.

But everything I read–for school, at home–had a wistfulness, a longing, a profound current of the ebb and flow of deep emotions. I connected with words and with literature. I didn’t realize it growing up, but I was connecting to the sadness. I brought my love of reading to my son. He devoured stacks of books–Harry Potter, Frog and Toad, Henry and Mudge, Lemony Snicket, Aragon, Dune, Lord of the Rings–and of course, many of the same books, authors, and poets I had read.

I say all of this to introduce you to one of the earliest poems I ever wrote about the great gulf of sorrow that swept over me when I lost my only child, my son Dylan, to suicide. My heart wept (it still does, though I’ve learned to carry love and ache together). Who I was fled my existence. My career. My teaching. My art. My music. My voice. My writing.

A great and terrible silence

A great and terrible silence came over me. I couldn’t speak more than a few words. I was lost in the rush and consumption of shock and grief. I wrote a few words as a note on my phone, about seeing my son laid out in a coffin, about how that day was the second worst day of my life. But it’s as though someone else was writing the words. I couldn’t find me, my words, my reflections, in my writing. It would be months before I could.

That profound grief, the spilling over of all I held precious and dear, the endless tears I wept, the way all of me went away the day my son died, sought expression in a way that had always reached into my deepest feelings.

Lifting Life from June

“He left too soon, lifting life from June” began so small, yet slowly took shape as the poem it is today. My first season of grief, summer and my son’s memorial date, expressed in poetic language. My deepest sorrow laid bare in the starkness of language befitting of grief.

“He Left Too Soon” is cloaked in language that was once foreign to me. Words drenched in loss and ache. Words belonging to cemeteries and the burying of the dead. Words that express only pain and hurt. Words that state bluntly the finality of life. I have known sadness my entire life, but I didn’t know how heavy grief feels. How losing a child can pull breath and life from you. How grief lives everywhere inside you when you lose a child to suicide.

Casting Torrents of Tears

The wallop of grief, the distortion of time and place, the feelings of shock and horror, the feeling of disbelief and the hideous reality of my son’s suicide. It is the first time I would write about losing my son, but it is not the last.

I had so few words. For one who’s read so much, I could find only the solemnity of language. A few sparse words that felt as heavy and weighted as the intense pain in my heart. Words of mourning. Echoes of late June when I lost my son.

Truth in “casting torrents of rain” because we were having drenching rains that week. Poetic because metaphorically, my grief was casting torrents of tears everywhere in my life.

He Left Too Soon (excerpt)

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 heavy beating of tears.

©Beth Brown, 2021, “He Left Too Soon”

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A vibrant cluster of red roses symbolizes love and remembrance, “He Left Too Soon” Poem: A Mother’s Deep Sorrow, My Forever Son

Poem: “He Left Too Soon”

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 heavy 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.

©Beth Brown, 2021, "He Left Too Soon"

Discover More Poems: Find Hope Here: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Healing, a deeply moving collection of poems by Beth Brown that captures the profound sorrow of losing a child to suicide. Each poem offers a glimpse into the journey through the labyrinth of grief, expressing the emptiness and heartbreak left in a child's absence while searching for hope and meaning amidst such unbearable loss.
A close-up of a vibrant red rose surrounded by green leaves, set against a textured gray wall, symbolizing hope and renewal, My Forever Son, Find Hope Here: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Healing
A vibrant red rose blooms amidst lush green leaves, symbolizing hope and renewal in the journey of healing, My Forever Son, Find Hope Here: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Healing

“Find Hope Here: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Healing”

Find Hope Here: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Healing is a heartfelt collection of poems and reflections by Beth Brown, the compassionate voice behind the My Forever Son blog. This poignant work navigates the deep, overwhelming sorrow that accompanies the tragic loss of a child to suicide. In her writing, Brown bravely shares her personal journey through grief, revealing how the act of writing poetry and connecting with the beauty of nature became vital sources of comfort and healing for her in the midst of such profound pain.

Through the author’s heartfelt verses, she reaches out with warmth and understanding to those who are journeying through their own sorrows. With her enchanting photography of the trees, shrubs, and flowers that grace her gardens throughout the seasons, Brown lovingly shares a beacon of hope, brightly illuminating the shadows cast by grief.

On Finding Hope: Photographing My Gardens Brings Healing

In nature, I find calm in the wake of profound sorrow and healing in the cycling of the seasons. Predictable. Beautiful in the spring, promising renewal after a long winter’s rest. Brilliant hues in the summer months. Autumn bringing trees and shrubs bejeweled in vivid reds, oranges, and reds. And then the stillness and monochromatic sketch of what can be a too long winter’s sleep.

Winter Wonderland: Captivating Photos in My Gardens

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A Long Winter’s Rest for Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers

This dormant season in winter echoes the hopelessness of my grief: everything feels, looks, seems bleak and forsaken.

This dormant season in winter echoes the hopelessness of my grief: everything feels, looks, seems bleak and forsaken. An empty landscape. Gray skies for months. A blanket of snow in white, though only the stark limbs of trees and shrubs. At times, though, red berries appear on some shrubs, supplying food for birds and wildlife. All this to say I can’t see life against this wintry scene.

But in photographing nature through the seasons, I began to see (again), the brilliance of a long winter’s rest for trees, shrubs, and flowers. To study nature and botany is to realize that what appears lifeless is actually the process of life within all of nature renewing itself. Trusting in what I cannot see brings hope and healing.

Spring Brings Hope: Photographs of My Gardens

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Spring Brings Beauty and Hope

Even against the cold remnants of a long winter–scattered clumps of snow, a robin redbreast plumped out to keep itself warm against a late March frost, brown dried leaves with nary a sign of color anywhere, spring breaks through. At first just small bits of color. A hint of purple as crocus push through thawing ground, then the vivid yellows of daffodils leaning towards the sun and the suddenness of blue bells. Rhododendron yawns and stretches its lavender limbs to awaken azalea, still sleepy with snow though greening beneath it all.

What seems forever gone in the gray doldrums of winter arrives with an abundance of joy come spring.

Writing My Way Through Grief to Find Hope and Healing

Snippets of language emerged as poetic reflections

Three years into my grief, I began writing journal entries. Short. A few feelings. About my day and where I was in my grief journey. Then slowly, snippets of language emerged as poetic reflections. Words shaped the deep feelings and emotional longing in my heart, and as I continued writing, I began to find small glimpses of hope in unexpected ways.

Photographing my gardens garnered a way to coalesce all the many feelings and words I’d been unable to express. And the more I photographed through the seasons, the more glimmers of hope I found along the way.

Each poignant poem in Find Hope Here: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Healing is a dedicated blog post in its own right, replete with the inspiration behind the poem.

The poems included in Find Hope Here: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Healing appear below. Each poem is a blog post in its own right, oftentimes replete with the inspiration behind the poem.

Each poem moves the reader through the profound emotions of grief and healing after losing a child.

Many of the poems tell narratives I remember from my son’s childhood. This is significant–reconstructing the narrative of our lives during his growing-up years brings release for all the love and beautiful memories before the trauma of losing him. Writing these poems and narratives, these poetic reflections on love and loss, have helped me learn to carry love and ache together.

Still I write. Still I heal. Still I miss my son.

From Shattered Hearts to Quiet Hope: Poems and Reflections for Parents of Suicide Loss

Find Hope Here: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Healing

If you are reading this, you know the unique and overwhelming grief of losing a child to suicide. This collection is for you—a place to find words and images that honor your pain, offer comfort, and gently invite hope.

Curated by Beth Brown, who lost her only child, her 20-year-old son Dylan, to suicide, these poems and reflections move through the rawness of early trauma, the depths of acute grief, and the slow journey toward healing, even thirteen years later. Each post pairs heartfelt writing with stunning garden photography, inspired by Beth’s own search for solace in nature’s resilience.

Hope can be quiet—listen for it in moments of rest.

You are invited to explore at your own pace. Choose what resonates—whether it’s a poem that mirrors your sorrow, a reflection that offers comfort, or an image that whispers hope. For more resources, stories, and support, visit the My Forever Son blog and discover a community that understands.

Contemplation Prompt:
Pause with a garden image. What does it say to you about survival, growth, or hope?

About the Author, Beth Brown: Writing My Way Through Grief

The love you shared endures beyond loss.

This collection is lovingly curated by Beth Brown, a mother who lost her only child, her 20-year-old son Dylan, to suicide. Over thirteen years, Beth’s journey through the depths of grief has been shaped by poetry, reflection, and the healing presence of her gardens. Through My Forever Son, she shares how nature’s resilience and beauty offer moments of solace and hope, even in the face of unimaginable loss.

Explore These Poems and Reflections at Your Own Pace

You are invited to explore these poems and reflections at your own pace. Each post pairs heartfelt words with stunning garden photography, offering comfort, understanding, and gentle encouragement for wherever you are in your grief. Select what speaks to you—let these pages be a companion on your path toward healing. For more resources, stories, and support, visit the My Forever Son blog and discover a community that understands.

Journaling Prompt:
What memories of your child bring both tears and warmth? Write a few lines, letting your heart speak freely.

You are not alone. Healing is a journey, and hope can bloom—even here.

Message of Hope:
Even in the darkest seasons, a single flower can remind us that beauty and life persist. Let these poems be gentle companions as you move through your grief.

FIND HOPE HERE: POEMS AND POETIC REFLECTIONS ON GRIEF AND HEALING

Poems about Losing a Child to Suicide

Understanding ‘Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon’ Poem’s Heartfelt Message

Understanding ‘Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon’ Poem’s Heartfelt Message Summary Understanding ‘Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon’ Poem’s Heartfelt Message explores the profound grief and regret of losing a child to suicide through the poem, “Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon,” by author Beth Brown. Through vivid imagery and heartfelt repetition, the poem captures the enduring love…

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When Love Isn’t Enough: ‘Ode to Suicide: That We Might Understand’

When Love Isn’t Enough: ‘Ode to Suicide: That We Might Understand’ Summary When Love Isn’t Enough: ‘Ode to Suicide: That We Might Understand’ unravels the profound complexities surrounding suicide, featuring an impactful poem and a heartfelt treatise by the author, “Ode to Suicide: That We Might Understand.” This poignant article and poetic reflection encourage readers…

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Healing Grief

The Magnolia Tree: A Symbol of Grief and Resilience

The Magnolia Tree: A Symbol of Grief and Resilience Summary The Magnolia Tree: A Symbol of Grief and Resilience explores the author’s journey of grief through the metaphor of a Magnolia tree’s cyclical seasons. The author uses photography to illustrate the parallels between nature’s cycles and the seasons of grief, finding hope and healing in…

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For Parents

Finding Beauty in Loss: Reflections on Grief and Healing

Finding Beauty in Loss: Reflections on Grief and Healing Key Takeaways Summary Finding Beauty in Loss: Reflections on Grief and Healing shares author Beth Brown’s journey of grief and healing after losing her son, Dylan, to suicide. Through poetry and nature photography, she finds solace and a way to express her overwhelming emotions after suicide loss.…

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poems of love and loss

“Travel On My Brave Soldier”: A Poem of Hope

“Travel On My Brave Soldier”: A Poem of Hope Summary “Travel On My Brave Soldier”: A Poem of Hope addresses grieving parents who have suffered the unimaginable loss of a child to suicide. It underscores the profound importance of honoring their child’s memory through meaningful rituals, sharing heartfelt stories, and engaging in advocacy events that…

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Healing Words: Download 3 Compassionate Poems for Coping with the Loss of a Child

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A beautiful pink water lily floating serenely on a calm pond surrounded by green lily pads, My Forever Son

Professional Resources

Online Directory for Coping with Grief, Trauma, and Distress

After A Suicide Resource Directory: Coping with Grief, Trauma, and Distress
http://www.personalgriefcoach.net
This online directory links people who are grieving after a suicide death to resources and information.

Alliance of Hope for Suicide Survivors
http://www.allianceofhope.org
This organization for survivors of suicide loss provides information sheets, a blog, and a community forum through which survivors can share with each other.

Friends for Survival
http://www.friendsforsurvival.org
This organization is for suicide loss survivors and professionals who work with them. It produces a monthly newsletter and runs the Suicide Loss Helpline (1-800-646-7322). It also published Pathways to Purpose and Hope, a guide to building a community-based suicide survivor support program.

HEARTBEAT: Grief Support Following Suicide
http://heartbeatsurvivorsaftersuicide.org
This organization has chapters providing support groups for survivors of suicide loss in Colorado and some other states. Its website provides information sheets for survivors and a leader’s guide on how to start a new chapter of HEARTBEAT.

Resources and Support Groups

Parents of Suicides and Friends & Families of Suicides (POS-FFOS)
http://www.pos-ffos.com
This website provides a public message board called Suicide Grief Support Forum, a listserv for parents, a separate listserv for others, and an online chat room for survivors of suicide loss.

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
https://www.taps.org/suicide
This organization provides resources and programs for people grieving the loss of a loved one who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces or as a result of their service. It has special resources and programs for suicide loss survivors.

United Survivors
https://unitesurvivors.org/
This organization is a place where people who have experienced suicide loss, suicide attempts, and suicidal thoughts and feelings, and their friends and families, can connect to use their lived experience to advocate for policy, systems, and cultural change.

Professional Organizations

American Association of Suicidology
suicidology.org • (202) 237-2280
Promotes public awareness, education and training for professionals, and sponsors an annual Healing After Suicide conference for suicide loss survivors. In addition to the conference, they offer a coping with suicide grief handbook by Jeffrey Jackson. This booklet is also available in Spanish.

The Compassionate Friends
compassionatefriends.org • (877) 969-0010
Offers resources for families after the death of a child. They sponsor support groups, newsletters and online support groups throughout the country, as well as an annual national conference for bereaved families.

The Dougy Center
The National Center for Grieving Children & Families
dougy.org • (503) 775-5683
Publishes extensive resources for helping children and teens who are grieving a death including death by suicide. Resources include the “Children, Teens and Suicide Loss” booklet created in partnership with AFSP. This booklet is also available in Spanish.

Link’s National Resource Center for Suicide Prevention and Aftercare
thelink.org/nrc-for-suicide-prevention-aftercar • 404-256-2919
Dedicated to reaching out to those whose lives have been impacted by suicide and connecting them to available resources.

Tragedy Assistance Programs for Survivors (TAPS)
taps.org/suicide • (800) 959-TAPS (8277)
Provides comfort, care and resources to all those grieving the death of a military loved one through a national peer support network and connection to grief resources, all at no cost to surviving families and loved ones.

LOSS
losscs.org
Offers support groups, remembrance events, companioning, suicide postvention and prevention education, and training to other communities interested in developing or enhancing their suicide postvention and prevention efforts.

Online resources

Alliance of Hope
allianceofhope.org
Provides a 24/7 online forum for suicide loss survivors.

Help Guide
helpguide.org
Provides resources and tips for how to navigate the loss of someone to suicide.

Parents of Suicides (POS) – Friends and Families of Suicides (FFOS)
pos-ffos.com
An internet community to connect parents, friends, and family that have lost someone to suicide.

SAVE: Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
save.org/programs/suicide-loss-support • (952) 946-7998
Hosts resources for suicide loss survivor including a support group database, newsletter, survivor conference and the Named Memorial Program, which offers a special way to honor your loved one.

Siblings Survivors of Suicide Loss
siblingsurvivors.com
Provides resources and a platform to connect with others that have lost a sibling to suicide.

Finding professional care and support

Find a mental health provider

Find a provider for prolonged grief

Find additional resources for marginalized communities

Crisis Services

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
988lifeline.org
Call or text 988 (press 1 for Veterans, 2 for Spanish, 3 for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults) or chat 988lifeline.org
A 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention service available to anyone in suicidal crisis. You will be routed to the closest possible crisis center in your area. With crisis centers across the country, their mission is to provide immediate assistance to anyone seeking mental health services. Call for yourself, or someone you care about. Your call is free and confidential.

Crisis Text Line
crisistextline.org
Text TALK to 741-741 for English
Text AYUDA to 741-741 for Spanish
Provides free, text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need, 24/7.

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Blooming pink azalea flowers representing love and remembrance, My Forever Son, Embracing Grief: A Poetic Journey of Love

Embracing Grief: A Poetic Journey of Love

Have you ever considered how your story might connect with others? We encourage you to share how you have embraced your grief and how it reflects the deep love you have for your child. Your experience can powerfully show how love and loss are connected, inspiring others on their journeys.

  • Reflect on your experiences: How have you embraced your grief? How does your grief reflect the deep love you have for your child?

Sharing your story can be a meaningful step in your healing journey. Reach out, and let’s transform your grief into a narrative that inspires and uplifts.

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Musician. Writer. Literary Connoisseur. Always writing, scribbling poetry, turning feelings into words. "Break my heart even further" can't ever be done, for I lost my heart the night I lost my son. Come find me writing at My Forever Son: Grief, Hope, and Healing After Losing My Son to Suicide.

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