Linda and I were those friends who wouldn't see each other for years, yet when we next met up we would start again where we left off. We hadn't been in contact for several years, which was usual for us but I had cause to contact a mutual friend recently and asked if he had contact details for Linda because I thought she had retired. He told me that Linda had died from cancer some years ago. The shock was like being punched in the stomach or having ice cold water thrown over you. I had no idea she'd been ill, let alone died. I have recently made contact with her husband and he has let me know what happened and told me where she was resting. I shall visit her in a week or two and lay flowers but I would also like to leave a verse or something to let her know how sad I am. Life can be so unfair.
I lost my one and only baby girl on May 7th 2015 at 8:05pm at the coast general referral hospital in Msa Kenya. She was born on 5th May with a cleft lip palate(easily correctable) but she died of nurse's negligence. She was feeding her while chatting with colleagues and not paying attention to my baby, I noticed and how she was leaving her unattended and asked her respectfully but she retorted and asked me if I was teaching her how to work....shortly after I noticed white stuff coming from the nose and on asking her she hurriedly checked, what followed was nurses coming and leaving and then a clinical officer, then a doctor, within no time, sucking pipes, oxygen etc...that marked the beginning of sleepless night and stress and by Thursday 7th May 2015, the worst happened. The pain of leaving the hospital with a dead child, burying that beautiful smile and going home empty handed...I mourn her almost daily, the pain of never getting another girl is even harder to handle...
Thank you so much, so happy you enjoyed it!
Have a blessed day,
~Lisa
Hear, hear. I couldn't agree more. Excellent poem. Very best wishes, Ann.
I know you posted this many years ago and I'm a bit late. But may I suggest the books Letters to the Lost and More than you can Tell, both by Brigid Kemmerer. I haven't personally gone through abuse but I have emotional trauma caused by a member in my family. Those books among others have instilled hope in my life.
I don't know if they accurately portray abuse but I hope they help.
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Yes indeed this poem has a strong emotional impact on me . It brings tears to my eyes
Because of :
Who shall we turn to Lord ?
You Alone is the Way, the Truth and Eternal Life
- May this prayer helps all those that are lost and grieving in this hard world
God is the only ANSWER.
Thank you, Antionette! For you nice
comment on my poem.
Hi Ann, like you I also lost my soulmate, I still feel her presence today, I do believe they are looking over us, God bless you.
My classmate passed away last month in a accident. He was only 15 years old, same age as me. Nobody understands me and my friends get annoyed at me when I talk about him. Nobody understands the hurt I feel and my heart cries every day for him but I cannot cry because I have no tears left. I will never forget him and I can't tell anyone that I loved him so much. I never realized that I loved him until now that he is gone. He was so kind to everybody. and now he's gone. Nobody understands me, and I don't know what to do, because I am very depressed and I don't think anyone in my family realizes it. I just have to walk around, pretending that everything is ok and I'm fine, but I'm not. I'm so broken inside. I feel so weak because I can't fight against my depression. I've had it since I was 8 and it's just getting worse. But I don't dare tell anyone because they will think that I've gone crazy, because nobody knows what my real self is. They think I am the happiest person in the world.
I lost my wife in 2015 unexpectedly. She lingered for a week and then I had to make a hard decision. It is really an indescribable feeling and I have never found a word suitable to describe it. Nothing is the same after, even the most fundamental daily activities can seem pointless. Your poem captures some of these feelings in me very well.
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