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You’re Free Now Child: A Song About Child Loss

You’re Free Now Child: A Song About Child Loss Songs for Child Loss I write poems and songs about child loss because I lost my only son. If you’ve lost a child, then you know the acute pain of grieving your child. It’s impossible, it’s ongoing, and it’s soul searching. I am always thinking about […]

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Rain Comes to Heal Us All: A Poem of Love and Loss

Rain Comes to Heal Us All: A Poem of Love and Loss Rain Comes to Heal Us All Rain comes to heal us all, Falling tears from a sky of love, Remembering even when earth forgets To nurture all that we cannot forgive, Bringing love remembered to restore Even flowers that forget how to bloom […]

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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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Loving Him Past His Pain

Loving Him Past His Pain October Shadows A gorgeous fall afternoon, early eveningSun slants wideShadows cast and scatter across a stone wall Oh that I could have loved him past his pain. Walked a bit ago to the cul-de-sac and then down to the field, following the sun, finding the sun shadowing me, feeling the […]

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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 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 […]