Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide
Find Hope Here: Poems About Losing a Child to Suicide
Bury My Heart-A Poem about Losing a Child
Bury My Heart-A Poem About Losing A Child Bury My Heart (for Dylan) Bury my heart I’ve come undone, Sorting through this life My son left behind. And what I’m seeking I know I’ll never find, His touch, his smile— His still living his life. And so instead I sift through A still-life dream, My…
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He Left Too Soon: A Poem About Losing a Child
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…
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The Agony of Guilt in Grief: That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back
The Agony of Guilt in Grief: That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve, If I’d only come to see, That might I future forward live To see all eternity. That I might know when and where somehow, And here and now then see,…
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I Will Seek Until I Find You-A Poem About Losing a Child
I Will Seek Until I Find You: A Poem About Losing a Child I Will Seek Until I Find You And where will you run when arms reach (but you’re not mine) When I can feel still so strongly (holding you still in my arms) From here frantic I search wildly (but cannot ever now…
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If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child
If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You Bones bear girth where once, wisdom birthed you. Love shaped curves That held me (and you)—too. If only a mother’s love could have saved you, Been there to catch your heart’s fall,…
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A Poem About Losing a Child: If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above
A Poem About Losing a Child: If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above If earth were sky and sky above Then heart could hold this ache of love, Suspended, like rain, in clouds wanting to fall, But bound to sun’s joy because heart touches all. I fall ‘ere so slowly most cannot yet tell My…
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A Poem of Love, Loss, and Losing a Child to Suicide-“Tillers of the Earth and Tenders of the Soil”
Tillers of the Earth and Tenders of the Soil We are the tillers of the earth and the tenders of the soil. These trees and plants and water garden were here before us, and they will be here after we go. We take care of them that they might take care of us and that…
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Where to From Here When Now I Cannot Be? A Poem About Losing a Child
A Poem About Losing a Child Where to From Here When Now I Cannot Be? Ripped here from centre where body birthed son, Where son birthed the all of who now I am. How now to be and where must I go? When between stars and here I hear your constant echo? How now to…
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A Poem About Losing My Son-Derecho: A Storm Out of Nowhere
Derecho (A Storm Out of Nowhere) Heart heaving, this beating of tearsBreaking loose—All hell in earth’s upturned ruptureBeth Brown, “Derecho” My Forever Son June 29, 2012–Funeral for my son. 101 degrees dropping to 73 degrees in a matter of minutes. Whirling wind. Gusts of whipping wind. Snapping wind. Dark skies. Clotted clouds. Midday sun going…
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“Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon”-A Poem About Losing a Child to Suicide
Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon (for Dylan) And once upon a blue-sky moon, We sailed our ships in your bedroom, With stars for light, we fled the dark But the lightening flashed, And the sky grew dark. You tucked away your childhood dreams On wings that soared beyond infinity, Your…
Read MoreBeat Still My Heart-A Poem About Losing a Child
Beat Still My Heart Beat still my heart Beat still my mind Weary though thou art Carry his love along with thine Though heavy on thy shoulders Crost fields throughout all time. In the deepest dark of the bleakest night, If light there be, the dark shuts it out. Around you all is swirling, hurtling…
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As I Tuck You In
My Child on Earth Above (In Heaven's Care) As I tuck you in, I lay me down As I hold you now, I lift my arms As I fall asleep, I pray for you My child, my love, my heart, I’m with you too My child, my love, my heart, May God keep and love you And you will be forevermore Safe from this world and so adored And God will be your comforter And I will always thank God for rescuing you And I will always praise God for loving you too And so I live my life in memory Surrendering to God, what now must be But here on earth I know the angels sing When I hear your voice I know God’s listening And I will always be your mother here And I will speak your name for all to hear And God will be with you ’til I get there My child on earth above in heaven’s care My child on earth above in heaven’s care- Beth Brown, My Child on Earth Above (In Heaven's Care) My Forever Son
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Carrying Ache and Love in Suicide Loss
Carrying Ache and Love in Suicide Loss Now, after all this time, Ache and Love walk together in my heart. Holding hands, one is never without the other, but ache and love have carried me—and carry me still. Beth Brown, My Forever Son Carrying Ache My life both imploded and exploded the day Dylan died. Inside…
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Quiet Tears at 3 Years
Quiet Tears at 3 Years Your beat of heart hersNow her own to live on,Sick pulse of acheholding death in her arms.Beth Brown, My Forever Son, If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You 3 Years of Infinite Tears You are a “survivor of suicide,” and as that unwelcomedesignation implies, your survival—your emotionalsurvival—will depend…
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5 Years, Infinite Tears
5 Years, Infinite Tears Losing Dylan has changed everything. Yes, I am to the point of feeling the highs of life again, though never so sweetly as to silence the ache of my heart that beats still for my son.Beth Brown, My Forever Son, 5 Years, Infinite Tears 5 Years, Infinite Tears This dark, incessant…
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