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I have no words of wisdom,
to comfort or relieve.
No way to make it better,
today or tomorrow.
The words 'I'm sorry', 'Time will heal',
'Things will be better'
mean little to her now.
He was my father.
And so, I grieve a childs loss.
But a child cannot provide
the comfort or the touch
Cannot provide the love
that only a mate knows how.
I saw my father become a shell.
His soul in the hands of God.
She saw her Love
stolen from her day-by-day.
The memories of their life
slowly faded from his eyes.
How can she survive now?
Her memories,
Such precious moments,
No longer able to share.
What words of wisdom have I?
I loved a man who was my father.
A steady rock.
A shoulder to cry on.
She loved a man who could touch her heart,
just so.
A man who was her friend
Her lover, her Husband.
They shared a different life
Though we were all together.
Because, he was my father
But he was her Husband.
I'd love to ease her pain
to bring her out of this darkness.
But I am only her child.
What words of wisdom have I?
I have not lost a mate.
Let alone, in the manner that she did.
And now I grieve for both my parents.
Not only did I see the disease take
my father day-by-day,
It took my mother's spirit
just as eagerly.
And I as the child seem better able
to embrace my grief and carry on.
For I, as the child lay my faith in God
And know that my father suffers no more.
But my mother, his wife, has fallen.
She lies at the bottom of the chasm,
Unable, and at times unwilling,
to go on without him.
The loss so great, the pain so severe.
What can I do? How can I heal the wound?
So I listen when she cries
and hug her when I'm there.
I hold my hand out that she may
reach it and climb out of this pit.
And I turn to our Lord and pray for
the strength that we both may
carry on.
What words of wisdom have I?
by Charmaine Kershaw
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