Sharing a beautiful poem
Hi! My name is Lily and my mom is living with ALS. It has been quite a difficult journey and I often feel like my life is on hold as I try to figure out how best to share this journey with my mom. I wrote a poem about it which might encourage some of you...
You can read it at my blog:
http://web.me.com/lilycheng/Site/Blog/Entries/2008/8/25_Sitting_on_the_Platform.html
My prayers are out there to all of you on this painful yet surprisingly beautiful at times journey.
Hi Lily! I am so sorry to hear your mom is living with Als. I know what you mean by "a difficult journey." Also feeling like your life is on hold, and on top of that you just wish you could stop the world from spinning! God, what a helpless feeling. I've been there, dear, and still hurting. May God bless you, your dear Mom, and the family. Keep us posted. I don't do much posting anymore, I mostly read, trying to keep up.
I would like to thank you for starting this thread on "poems," because the other day I spotted one out of one of Tim McLean's web sites created by friends and family. I have been wanting to share it with you guys, but was waiting for the right time. To all the others: I am not trying to get off topic, I am only sharing a beautiful poem. Do not know who wrote it. It is as it follows:
"For a Son"
No words I write can ever say
How much I miss you every day.
As time goes by, the loneliness grows,
How I miss you, nobody knows.
I think of you in silence,
I often speak your name.
But all I have are memories,
And a photo in a frame.
No one sees me weep.
But the love I have for you,
Is in my heart, and mine to keep.
I have never stopped loving you
And I know I never will.
Deep inside my heart,
You are with me still.
Heartaches, this world are many,
But mine is worse than any.
My heart still aches, as I whisper low,
"I need you...and miss you so."
The things we feel so deeply
Are often the hardest to say.
But I just can't keep quiet anymore,
So I'll tell you any ways.
There is a place within my heart
That no one else can fill.
I love you and always will.
Hope my Pals and Cals enjoy this poem. God bless us all!
Irma