Parents in Pain

Behind the smile lies deeper pain

For sun has gone; replaced by rain

A child is gone, another too

All that's left behind of you.

We go onward still and face the day

And hide our tears and great dismay

Yet sighs are heard beneath each breath

The facade falls sway to certain death.

How did this come; who is to blame?

Why all the heartache, grief and shame?

I'm angry now and still I try

To forget such pain: I seek to hide.

Not just one loss, many have come

Not just a daughter or a son

But children and grandchildren too

I try to hide; but pain shines through

What is the point to all we've done

The hours of loving daughter and son

Of holding them when they too cried

When their worlds seem to have died.

But now forgotten parents love

Taken flight on wings of dove

And none remember but he and I

We share a glance a tear and cry

Life still goes on the day will come

When truth will stand; we'll be as one

Re-united! Oh what sweet re-frain!

No longer to be parents in pain.

Written by:

Rose E. Slater

4/18/09 11:50 PM