Son

When I was born in 1971, she was a great mother right from the start.
Mom was a warm and caring...

A Gypsy fathers' dream finally came through

his son began his first day of Elementary school...

You were always number one, never number two.
I'm your son and I was very fortunate to have you....

My life would be so much better if you hadn't become sick and died.
You were a wonderful person...

When Mom died, life lost a lot of its luster.
While she lived, everybody could trust her.
...

She was my mom and I loved her with all of my heart and soul.
When she died, it was so devastating...

God,
What have I
To rely on, in this precarious life
Or,
Of all the things,...

This is the third Mother's Day that has come around since you perished.
The love that we felt for...

Mother

Used to be

So cool

And easy

But lately

She has become...

my sons ~ survival.
____________________________

The night you were born
~ was no...

Two years ago today you died.
Two years ago today I cried.
Two years ago today I lost a woman...

This warm summer evening
I walk with my aging father.
Along the cottages in the lane
...

my soul and his....

I picked him up off the couch just now, his body relaxed so full of dreams,...

Once far away in a strange place of sorrowful lament for life's breath

Lived a boy

Not of...

Anger, frustration, resentment and hate
I don’t want to listen; I just want to escape

From...

Today was his first play
At kindergarten for a while
Seems not that long ago
My boy...

I wish that your death turned out to only be a bad dream.
Your demise makes me feel like I'm coming...