Four Months Ago Today

 

     This one needs no explanation. 

 

Four Months Ago Today

Life does not stop for sorrow, to let it out or in

the sun rises as always, the Earth retains its spin.

I go to the same places, follow the same routine,

though nights are sometimes sleepless and days are sometimes grim.

 

Four months today, you went away at God’s appointed time.

I know you live in heaven now--and in my heart and mind.

I prayed the Lord would show you that He is real and good

and now you see him face to face, as I wish so wish I could.

 

Yet God is good, as always, his blessings bring me joy.

I still have all my memories of you, my much loved boy.

God changed my life forever the day I gave you birth,

and changed my life for this short span the day you left the earth.

 

Life does not stop for sorrow, neither, it seems, can I.

No words within a parent’s heart can tell their child goodbye.

I, like the sun, keep moving through my appointed days

and miss the son that heaven gained, four months ago today.

7/22/22