Hope For Others & What I've Learnt

The Wall I built a wall around my soul, that no pain or fear could breach Inside that wall I hid so long, alone and out of reach No word nor hand could reach inside, to touch my broken heart From love and joy and gladness, my life stood well apart Inside my world I wept and railed, against my inner pain I could not see the wall I'd built was now my grief's domain Then slowly, oh so slowly, though cracks the sun did shine And looking out I felt the warmth I'd left so far behind And piece by piece I broke that wall, they mark that rocky trail That guides me ever onwards, and helps my heart prevail Author Unknown

Grief Grief I have met you, and because of misunderstanding you I have nearly allowed you to destroy my life I turned inward and saw nothing but loss I turned outward, but couldn't forget what I was missing I learned from you, you taught me how to fight back How to return again and again from the depths of pain that no one should go Most of all you cleared up that misunderstanding I had of you You are me!! You are a natural extension of my Love If I did not feel grief, I would never have experienced Love I will never be afraid of you again!

When You Lose A Child When you lose a child, your whole world is shattered Your hopes and dreams are crushed, your heart is broken Your life is forever changed You feel as though you will never again find a moment of happiness And then one day you finally do smile But suddenly you feel guilty, like you are forgetting your precious angel And then you realise It was your precious child that gave you that smile Just to say "I Love You" Author Unknown

The Role Model I watch in wonderment as you go about your daily tasks I see the determination. the quiet confidence And wonder if you were always like that Or did your child's death touch you deep inside and soften your soul? Did your priorities change? Did your pace slow? Am I seeing the new you or the old? I see you laughing and talking with friends And I wonder if you still cry when you are alone And remember your child with death memories too bitter to own? Or have you travelled to a higher plane, a different phase Beyond the tears and grief and fears, that have trapped me in their maze? I don't know.  I only know that I look to you and hold on tightly with hope in my heart That someday, I too, can find strength and find my new start! Author Unknown

We do not recover from the death of a child, we heal Part of the healing process is accepting, that not only has our own life changed But we are becoming different people We may look the same as before our child died, but we look at life in a new way We have more understanding and compassion We cannot know why sad things happen We can only know that nothing beautiful in this world is ever truly lost Because all precious things live in memory FOREVER!!

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