Stillen Gedenken

(Still Remembrance)

Grieving the Living

Silence, a reckoning you brought and demanded, detonated to implode and deny a bond so wondrously created at your birth. I'll lament your choice to remove yourself from my world while missing your face, your joy, and your light for all of my existence. Daring to hang by a gossamer thread of hope, I'll navigate through this life, through days of longing for you amid depths of emptiness. I'll cry in the darkest nights, grieving the absence of you, my dear child, for evermore....until I breathe no more......and then from my desolate grave.