Loss Poem

Mourning Poem Healing After Loss

I wrote this after having lost a baby. It would have been our second child (and first daughter). We named her Casey Lynn.
A quote I love always comes to mind when thinking of her:
"An angel in the Book of Life
wrote down my baby's birth;
then whispered as she closed the book -
Too beautiful for Earth."
Fly high on angel wings, my love! (12-4-07)

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Analysis of Form and Technique

Tell Me It's Okay

Published by Family Friend Poems August 2018 with permission of the Author.

Tell me it's okay
To just want to cry.
Tell me it's okay
To never say goodbye.

Tell me it's okay
To be afraid to be strong.
Tell me it's okay
And that you're comin' along.

Tell me it's okay
And that you're staying by me.
Tell me it's okay,
And that this life is meant to be.

Tell me it's okay
To feel how I'm feeling.
Tell me it's okay -
The way that I am dealing.

Tell me it's okay -
That there is a reason for it all.
Tell me it's okay,
Even if I fall.

Tell me it's okay
To lose control today.
Tell me it's okay.
Just tell me it's okay.

Analysis of Form and Technique

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This poem uses the repetition of "tell me it's okay" to convey the theme of healing.
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This poem is made up of four-line stanzas called quatrains.
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This poem follows the ABAB rhyme scheme.
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