Thursday, November 24, 2011

a garden, a mirror

When I was a little girl I enjoyed playing in the dirt. Not in the way some people may think, for me it was a garden, a magic that is hard to explain, unless you are a gardener.  Mud pies, baked in the sun.
As I grew older a garden became more important to me, representing a form of beauty brought directly to our world thru gifts from heaven.
My garden is dead.
When did that happen, when did I decided that dirt was not important to me anymore.  I look outside and see the weeds, the blackberry bushes the lack of flowers, the damn weeds.
You do not need to go to years of school to figure out that my garden represents my feelings....
I mirror my garden, it has been several years but this year it is time to go back to the dirt. I am not dead, my garden will bloom again.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

a child lost

When I think of you, I wonder often what would you have been
a child lost
I miss you

Thursday, November 10, 2011

i know your story because it is mine, i looked at our picture two young people so in love, our future in front of us, so many dreams, so much we wanted to accomplish. I can not pin point the moment the sadness began, it could have been from the beginning. I have actually never been as sad as you. Until we could not have children, it started with the first pregnancy, lost. The next an emergency ectopic, soon to be followed a month later with yet another surgery because it was twins.  Thirteen years of infertility treatment. To find out our final attempt on Mother's day was unsuccessful. Me suffering all of the physical issues of treatment, so many drugs, shots, hormones, poking and pushing. You suffering the mental without the physical, me saying I could not do it anymore, my body was done. Me not telling you that my mind was done too.  Ten years have now passed, the death of my father, your declining health, when I think the sadness has reached saturation, I am again reminded that there is a deeper well, we have not reached the bottom of the pit. There is more sadness to experience.  Today I had to leave you after you had a seizure, and impossible position but I must keep my job for the insurance and the income.  Lord whose cereal did I crap in, why is it that two people who love each other as much as we do must continue to suffer.  What are we proving? We rarely question you, we understand that our lives may actually be brighter than the person in the car next to us. But today, I was angry, just pissed off at you and the journey that you are putting us thru. When I saw my husband scared, and alone I was pissed.  Pissed at the world. Pissed at you Lord. What did I do? I turned to you and prayed. I am either filled with faith, or possibly the stupidest person on this earth.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

one minute, and I miss you

Many days I walk out the door, put my key in the lock and as soon as it turns I miss you
I drive away, drive to work and I miss you

So many people enjoy leaving there mate, enjoy the absence
Not me, I turn the key and I miss you

Everyday when I leave, I miss you