I'm fine now,
don't you cry.
I'll see you soon,
it's not goodbye.
Remember I'm
always in light,
when you miss me
in the dead of night.
Remember how
much fun we shared.
Remember how
much that we cared.
In our love,
we'll never part.
You'll always have me
in your heart.
Don't you worry,
I'm in God's love,
here in heaven
up above.
I'm fine now,
don't you cry.
I'll see you soon,
it's not goodbye.
One little cry and a baby is born;
Dark, shiny lashes frame blue infant eyes.
One little hand grasps his brown, leather finger;
Little One captures her old daddy’s heart.
One little word and she’s already talking;
“Mama” and “Dada” she laughs all day long.
One little step and a great heavy fall;
But she’s up again, running to chirp “daddy’s home!”
One little song and she’s crowing a melody;
Warbly, off key, but joyful the same.
One little question unfastens the door;
And Mama’s all-knowing, so fire away!
Sin, suffering, and sorrow
My three deepest fears
The three enemies of my faith
Tearing and being torn
Swearing and being mourned
Death on the horizon, I
See the third fear, and
Am surmising
That soon I must
Say goodbye
And my world will go on
Where his ended
My life will move on
Where his didn’t
And then from that pain I turn
I see another man
Who’s life was burned
By the first enemy
By his own choice he
Destroyed a name
He squandered his voice
To play a game
There was black.
And there was white.
In the silence of the morning mist,
a golden halo frames a pale face,
set and stern,
stiff above a coal-black gown that
brushes against the shiny marble
in the dewy grass.
Numb,
she reads the words,
finely chiseled
into rocky gray…
new and
dead.
A tear splashes on
the cold
gravestone.
I stepped outside,
Felt the slap of winter’s
Icy breath
And stood beneath
The rain-soaked pines
Drops dripped
I looked up, fists clenched
And felt a wet ceiling above
A great ice wall betwixt me
And the sky
Unleashing and spitting upon me
Drops dripped
The Lord had taken my joy
I said
Had swept my feet from under
Like a scythe at harvest
My precious things in their
Full bloom,
Their life and blood on the earth
Drops dripped
He thought it was the right answer
And so took his own life
His arm breathed an apology
For being dead inside
His friends take time to mourn for him
His family weeps with pain
Yet Alex our own broken loss
Should not have been your gain
The dominoes come crashing down
As air is filled with threats
Kids unstable, and razors sharp
Affect forgets regret
One death first, and then another
Your self inflicted loss
You curse your friend and your mother
Refuse to share your cross
I see a void over which colors loom
Waiting to embrace in the place of gray
Our children are lost inside of this gloom
While parents are kneeling to weep and pray
We hail them on with exuberant cheer
And muster courage, their hearts to carry
While standing by, they see their end is near
And they only live in hopes to bury
Once they’re gone we suddenly wonder why
With such deep dread they began every day
And looked up never into the bright sky
Wishing only to die and fall away
As the glowing sun set behind Knight Manor. Isabella Knight a beautiful 21-year-old girl was finishing the last few touches on a surprise birthday party for her mom and uncle her mom’s twin brother. Bella scribbled on a piece of paper the last couple of items she needed to grab from the store.
‘Cake, candles, and balloons.’ thought Bella as she ran out the door to her black truck and rushed to the store. As Bella picked up the last few things on her list her phone rang.
“Hello” “Bella honey, it’s dad is everything ready for your mom and uncle?”
Even worlds die. In a universe so vast, there is always, somewhere, a planet that is fading out and dying in the great darkness.
When a world begins to die, there are plenty of humanitarian organizations ready to sweep in to the rescue, evacuating the planet’s inhabitants and relocating them to a new home world in some other part of the galaxy. They are hurried away, and the world is left alone.
That is when I arrive.
When she died
I cried,
and I
can’t explain the hurt inside.
I laid my head
Down on the bed
So much to say,
But in that silence, all was said.
Still, she looked into my eyes
after so many tries
said, “I
love
you.”
That was enough
her feelings
true
when she told me
“I love you.”