Love and Angel Kisses on your Pillow~MIRA
Before my child died I had no idea
I probably used some of the platitudes I now hear
But July 23, 2003 made it all too clear
I am a bereaved parent now too I fear
Smashes down upon you with unimaginable force,
Sweeps you up into its darkness,
Where you tumble and crash against unidentifiable surfaces
Only to be thrown out on an unknown beach,
bruised, reshaped.....
It is the ashes from which the phoenix rises
and the mettle of rebirth.
It returns life to the living dead.
It teaches that there is nothing absolutely true or untrue...
Grief will make a new person out of you,
If it doesn't kill you in the making.
-Stephanie Ericsson
