April showers cannot erase it
These things which happened so long ago.
When we thought we were safe
and we thought there was
all the time in the world.
Then a string of tragedies
all centered in this month
all the national pains
and six years ago
my personal pain
and even now
six years later
I feel the family tip toe around this month
as if afraid that if we speak
we may have to face it
and harder still is it for me
than the rest
for only I know what this month held
for me
six years ago
and how I almost.......
I don't even want to think about it!
I lost you
We all lost you
and I nearly lost myself.
I lost my family
you held it together once
and you charged me with this duty upon your death bed
but I have wound up a sorry keeper of the peace.
I need the May flowers to come
so the family can celebrate birth
and belay the effects that death brought stinging on us.
But for now I stand in these April showers
my own tears augmenting them
and causing a flood in my world.

04/25/2002

Posted on 04/25/2002
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