My Puppies

My puppies are so sweet 

I love their trusting eyes 

I love their loving hearts

I love their tender faces

I love my little puppies 🐶🐶

Flame

Space in my heart –

Infinite expansion 

Force of life flows

From dust to dust 

A spirited candle

Keeps burning 

To my baby that isn’t 

My baby 

If I could make you today

I would make you with a song in my heart

I would love you with all of me

And I would cherish your life forever 

If you were a daughter 

Your name would be Olivia Marie 

A Petition

Focused on my son

Swimming diving splashing playing

A split second of eternity 

Gently turned my head

To see her armbands 

Discarded on the tiles 

With golden hair submerged below deep

Cold cruel waters 

I was too far 

Angels!

My silent scream petitioned heavens and earth 

An angel

Any, one, many, please!

In slow motion

I started to move 

I managed 

I reached her 

I saved her 

It was not me –

An angel turned my head 

An angel heard my cry.

Small Mercies 

Life can be cruel 

And with reflection 

It has been cruel to me 

But life can be kind too

And so with honesty 

I am thankful for small mercies

A Gift

A nightmare swallowed me 

My drowning mother 

I reached for her 

I grabbed and pulled 

She sank 

I panicked 

She was too far 

My heart raced 

I couldn’t breathe

She’s dying! 

She’s dead.

I woke up 

It’s her birthday next week

It was a dream – she is still alive

I will buy her a gift 

So I bought her a gift 

Which she never received 

Because she was already 

Dead.

Dead

It was to be my mother’s birthday

So I drove to the mall 

To buy her a gift

Not knowing 

That she was

Already 

Dead