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Find Hope Here: Poems of Love, Loss, and Losing a Child
Grief After Losing a Child
Year 3 Memorial Date After Suicide Loss: Living Backwards Going Forward
Living Backwards Going Forward I am aware, the further I come along this grief journey, the less I live forward. My Forever Son 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…
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Losing My Only Child to Suicide: “My Forever Son” Backstory
“My Forever Son” In the beginning, I had no words. I couldn’t speak. My voice was stilled. I lost my only child, my 20-year-old son, to suicide on June 25, 2012. In the beginning, who I was went away. What I did for a living went away. My professional life came to a grinding halt,…
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Grieving the Suicide Loss of a Child: Helpful Grief Tips
And can it be in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up. Charles Dickens If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever. Adopt Healthy Coping Strategies The aftermath…
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A Mother Reflects on 5 Years of Grief After Child Loss: “For Here Now, I Stay”
For Here Now I Stay And so where from here? For here now, I stayFor here now, I breathe your loveFor here now, I am with you always So many days, so much time having passed and yet, and yet, still as it has been still these past 5 years. It is sometimes, Dylan, as…
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Find Hope Here: Featuring Poems About Losing a Child
A Poem of Love, Loss, and Hope: “Tillers of the Earth and Tenders of the Soil” A Poem of Love, Loss, and Hope: “Tillers of the Earth” 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…
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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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My Forever Son-Chronicling Grief, Hope, and Healing After the Death of My Son By Suicide 