MEMORIAL SILHOUETTES

FOR OUR CHILDREN

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SILHOUETTES OF FATHERHOOD

.....by Christine Ross in memory of Lucas Christopher Ross 1979 - 2001

The silhouettes of fatherhood
From another time and place,
Grief has cast it's shadow
On his cheerful father face.

The contour of his happiness
Created sometime long ago,
Darkened by his agony
And the truth he's come to know.

The profile of his peacefulness
Embraced in days gone bye,
Shaded by his loneliness
And the many tears he's cried.

The shape of all good things to come
Yearned for in future days,
Blackened by reality
Of death that's come his way.

The form of his existence
In the life he thought he'd live,
Clouded by his pleading
That his life he'd gladly give.

The figure of fulfillment
From yesterdays desires,
Obscured by constant mourning
And all that it requires.

The likeness of tomorrow
Won't bring the things it should.
Soon he'll find the light within
The Silhouettes of fatherhood.

© 2007 - Christine Ross

Published in
LIVING WITH LOSS MAGAZINE
Summer 2009, Volume 24 No. 2
Bereavement Publications, Inc.

JUST BEYOND THE VEIL......
OUR CHILDREN WAIT

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"LUKE" LUCAS CHRISTOPHER ROSS 21 years

"BEAU" JASON BEAU MORGAN 23 Years

"BRAD" BRADLEY LOUIS CORDIAL 17 years

"LUKE" LUCAS JAMES FLOREN 21 years

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JACOB KENNETH DAVIS 13 years

ARLYN MARIA BEAL 18 Years

RICKY AARON PHILLIPS 22 years

RAYLENE ALICIA GUTIERREZ 23 years

03

ROSS HUNTER WHITE 19 years

JAYDEN EARL ELLEFSON 1 year 1 month

"ALEX" ALEXANDER ZACHARY MATTHEW SALADINO 4 years

JOEY MARSHALL WHITEMAN 21 years

04

ANTHONY PAUL WODZINSKI 15 years

AVRA MARIE JOHNSON RAMSAY 21 Years

COREY CHRISTOPHER JAMES 20 years

MICHELLE MARIE JAMES 22 years

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GARRETT DANIEL STAIB 1 hour

DANIEL VINCENT STAIB 23 years

PRISCILLA ANN FREITAS 1 year 4 days

"DEBBIE" DEBORAH JEAN FREITAS DAUGHRATY 42 years

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CARL TAYLOR 1 year 6 days

"JOEY" JOSEPH CHRETIEN JR. 25 years

"BOBBIE" ROBERT J. MCCARTHY IV 19 years

"BECKY JO" REBECCA JO SESTER 15 years

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BECKY VIDMOSKO

BRIAN JOSEPH PARKER 27 years

TIMOTHY PATRICK PARKER 26 years

JASON PAUL HILTON 24 years

08

CADE DAWSON WRIGHT 3 years

LEE WILLIAM HARRIS 33 years

AARON JOSEPH GOLDEN-MCBRIDE

CARTER GERALD SANDQUIST 3 days

09

JUSTIN MICHAEL ROBERTSON 17 years

AIMEE LYNN PLUMMER 20 years

CHRISTOPHER RONALD FALLER 7 years

JAMIE MARILYN VITELLO

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AMY LYNN ALSOFROM 25 years

STEPHEN MATTHEW WILSON 20 1/2 years

ANNE MARIE BERND 24 years

"BRAD" BRADLEY ALAN O'MARTIN 27 Years

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CALEB JOSEPH HIEATT 15 years

CANDICE KEIM 19 years

TREVOR MARK ORITZ 23 years

CHAD KITCHEN 25 years

12

"KRISS" KRISSTOFFER JEFFERSON 20 years

CHAROLETTE ANN MCDONALD 17 years

CHRISTOPHER RYAN SILVA 18 years

"CLINT" CLINTON TERRY MILAM 10 years

13

SHERRIE REANNA MORELAND 15 years

CORY GENE PILAT 21 years

MICHAEL JOHN SHULTZ 8 months

"DAMO" DAMIAN REID CARVER 19 years

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JESSICA LOUISE WEST 17 years

DANIELLE MARIE PLOURDE 11 years

JAMES AARON GUREVICH 17 years

DEREK GEIBE 20 years

15

MACKENZIE NICOLE WEST 13 years

ETHAN ROBERT SALAS

FAITH ANN MCINTIRE 4 1/2 months

COURTNEY MARIE WAFSTET

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KRISTA KATHLEEN KELLY 28 years

GALEN WAYNE MASTERSON 11 years

PAUL JOHN LAFAVER 27 years

"GRANT" JERRY GRANT LEWIS 26 years

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"KRISTI" KRISTINA DAWN BARKHURST

HAYDEN ALAN ADAMS 37 days

CHRISTOPHER EMERY ZOLAN-HORNE

JACE ALEXANDER GIKAS 6 months

18

JASON PAUL HARRILL 22 years

LARRY LAFOY FLIPPENCE 41 years

JASON LEE WEST 19 years

JEREMY DILLON WILLIAMS 18 years

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JESSICA KASSANDRA HAFFER 14 years

CHRISTOPHER DALE BOOY 21 years

JESSIE ROBERT RICHARDSON 24 years

JODY LAWRENCE GONYOU 30 years

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"JOEY" JOSEPH DAVID SORENSON 21 years

"JOEY" JOSEPH ZACHARY TAYLOR 4 years

TYLER BILLY TSCHESCHLOG 14 years

"JOSH" JOSHUA PAUL COPE 21 years

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JOSHUA ENVIL 26 years

KANDA MICHELLE JACOBS 30 years

JAMIE LEE RICHARDSON 20 years

KENZIE RAYANN GOLDEN-RODEN

22

HANNAH ISABELLA SNYDER 3 1/2 years

KRISTEN JENNICA GILLIS 16 years

"MACK" KENNETH MACK HILLERY CREAMER 17 years

MICHELLE CAITLIN O'NEAL WOODWARD

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MEGAN MARIE BAKER 21 years

STEPHEN JARED EBANKS 17 years

MICHAEL DONNELLY BUTKA 16 years

"MIKEY" MICHAEL RAY CAGLE,JR. 17 years

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WILLIAM (Little Gary) GARY LOWDER, JR. 26 years

"OLYA" OLESYA VITALIEVNA NOVIKOVA 22 months

RODNEY ALLEN NISBET 38 years

"PAULIE" PAUL RYAN SHANNO 9 1/2 years

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GEOFFREY PHILIP JAMES EDWARDS 18 years

RICKY JAMES DAVIS, JR. 24 years

COLIN RIVANS STEPHENS 22 years

SARAH JEAN DAVIDSON 3 years 11 months

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ETHAN MICHAEL LYNN KILPATRICK 4 1/2 years

TATYANA LORIANN CIRKSENA 14 months

ALYSSA ESTEVEZ 24 years

TOMMY M. CHILDRESS 18 years

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ANTHONY JAMES-JUSTIN FRIEND 27 years

"TONY" ANTHONY RYAN MCLEMORE 31 years

DOUGLAS RICHARD MALONE MILLER 15 years

ELIZABETH ANN HUDSON 20 years

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WILLIAM (LIL JOEY) DONALDSON JR. 13 years

JAYDEN SKYE CARTER 1 year

JOSHUA AARON CADE 14 years

ROBERT JAMES DELOSH 24 yeqrs

29

JACKY MICHAEL DELOSH 1 hour

ROB NORTHROP aka RadRob 26 years

JEFFREY ROBERT HENDERSON TWOMEY 15 years

TAYLOR BURGSTAHLER 17 years

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BENJAMIN DAVID SHIPP 24 years

KAITLYNN RENE FORET 7 months

HEATHER DAWN CRAWFORD 17 years

COLIN ROBERT HOPSON 27 years

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RICKY DEWAYNE MCCORKLE 20 YEARS

WYMAN EDDIE FLETCHER JR. 30 YEARS

JOSHUA EUGENE HEDGLIN 18 YEARS

ROBERT LOUIS (BOBBY) MONTGOMERY 27 YEARS

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MAYCIE "TIMMONS" SMITH SILENTLY BORN

SHELLY SUE PIERCE 19 YEARS

LOUIS MICHAEL (LOUIE) JOHNSON 28 YEARS

LEE HENRY AGUILERA 25 YEARS

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CRAIG LITTLEJOHN 51 YEARS

ISIAH STEWART 19 YEARS

JAKE ANDREW FEINBERG 31 YEARS

JOSHUA DELANEY 22 YEARS

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WILLIAM "HARLEN" BAKER 26 YEARS

STEVEN MATHIS 30 YEARS

SAMUEL SCOTT GEER 21 YEARS

BILLY SULLIVAN 19 YEARS

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STEVEN JACKSON STAFFORD 10 YEARS

LUCAS DEE KLOUZEK 33 YEARS

JOSHUA S. JOHNSON 21 YEARS

CHRISTOPHER DOMINIC SIRJU 20 YEARS

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VERONICA MARIE HARPER 16 1/2 YEARS

JOSH MCNULTY 20 YEARS

LLOYD FRANKLIN ROBERTS (DRACUS) 40 YEARS

JAMES GARY RODGERS II 24 YEARS

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KARI ANN RAMSEY 3 MO 2 WKS

TAMI MARIE WOLFE 20 YEARS

JEFFREY MICHAEL FELIX 27 YEARS

RYAN PLATTSMIER 31 YEARS

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AMANDA RENAE CAUDILL 25 YEARS

IESHA S.J. WATSON 14 1/2 YEARS

SHANTA S.M. WATSON 7 DAYS

LETICIA MICHELLE SMITH 17 YEARS

39

ERIC SUTTON SKINNER 19 YEARS

HAYLEE DANYELLE MAZZELLA 4 1/2 YEARS

BRYAN JAY REID 15 YEARS

MICHELLE MARIE GREEVER 9 YEARS

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MICHAEL PAUL BURCHFIELD 10 YEARS

ADAM DOUGLAS BEISWANGER 5 YEARS

JOHN TAYLOR LOMON 17 YEARS

RADOMIR CIRIC 33 YEARS

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AMANDA ROSE WAINSCOTT 20 YEARS

MICHAEL SETH BRENDEL 29 YEARS

ISAIAH STEWART 19 YEARS

MIKEY PLATT 16 YEARS

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COLIN MICHAEL EWERS 21 YEARS

CASSANDRA "CASSIE" JAYNE TAYLOR 18 YEARS

JONATHAN STEVEN WITTY 16 YEARS

AMY AMBER BRACCIO 23 YEARS

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KENNETH MACK HILLERY CREAMER 17 YEARS

GERRY GRIFFITH PROVANCE 26 YEARS

PAMELA SUE FOUNTAIN 21 YEARS

BRIAN EDWARD HINSHAW 32 YEARS

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ARYN JO HYMAN STILLBORN

JUSTIN HENRY THEILBAR, JT 17 YEARS

JESSE STEVEN TUCKER 26 YEARS

WHITNEY CARDIN SHARP 17 YEARS

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MICHAEL TROY ROGNES 17 YEARS

KYLE R. COSTELLO 16 YEARS

JUSTIN JAMES PIERCE 12 YEARS

BRETT ANTHONY GINDER 18 YEARS

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CODY TYLER CLIFTON 18 YEARS

WILLIAM "HARLEN" BAKER 26 YEARS

LAURIE MICHELLE BAER 16 YEARS

JOHN TAYLOR LOMON 17 YEARS

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TRENTON ALAN DOVE 31 YEARS

JIMMY REDENIUS 32 YEARS

RANDY REED HECOX 30 YEARS

STEPHANIE DAWN BARRAGY 37 YEARS

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SHAWN PATRICK GIGLIO 29 YEARS

BRIAN SCOTT DAVIS 20 YEARS

AIRMAN 1ST CLASS SCOTT M. SCHROEDER 20 YEARS

JASON STEPHEN MURPHY 18 1/2 YEARS

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DESIRAH MARIE JACOB STILLBORN

SGT. PETER A. MAGINNIS 37 YEARS

ALLEN D. BORING JR. 32 YEARS

JAMES THOMAS PRICE 7 MONTHS

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NICOLE EUNSOOK SPENCER 20 YEARS

ROBERT ALAN WILLIAMS 19 YEARS

ROBERT DENNIS "BOBBY" DIGAN 18 YEARS

MARY CATHERINE DIGAN STILLBORN

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DANIEL SCOTT FORRESTER 30 YEARS

KAYLIN MARIE MATHEWS 20 YEARS

JARROD ALAN CHRISMAN 23 YEARS

JOSEPH MICHAEL MEDINA 31 YEARS

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AMANDA NICOLE CURCIO 17 YEARS

HEATHER DAWN CRAWFORD 17 YEARS

JUSTIN EWERS 26 YEARS

BRANDON SCOTT COPE 17 YEARS

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JULIE HOWELL TUTT 38 YEARS

LEVI MICHAEL ZORN 27 YEARS

JENNA MARIE PRATT BORN STILL

CASSANDRA "CASSIE" JAYNE TAYLOR 18 YEARS

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CLISTY HALL 17 YEARS

JILL MARIE (CLARK) GREGORY 35 YEARS

RUTH ANN EDWARDS 54 YEARS

PAMELA LYNNE REID 17 YEARS

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SHANE SHORT 22 YEARS

WAYNE LEE WALKER 34 YEARS

RICKEY F. TACKETT, II STILLBORN

JEREMY TODD TACKETT 26 YEARS

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DAVID "DAVEY" JOSEPH SISOLAK, JR. 25 YEARS

MIRANDA TRAVIS YOUNG COMBS 23 YEARS

KYLEE JAYNE COMBS SILENTLY BORN

JEFFREY CHRISTOPHER NOEL HEYWOOD 31 YEARS

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ERIC ALVAREZ

RYAN JAMES MCCARTHY 16 DAYS

JASON KEVIN MCCARTHY 26 YEARS

ADAM JAMES JACKSON 33 YEARS

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CASSANDRA LEIGH BAKER 23 YEARS

MATTHEW LLOYD CARIE DAARUD JR. 16 YEARS

NATHAN LYNN FORD 16 YEARS

JEREMY WAYNE ELDRIDGE 28 YEARS

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KASEY LYNNE BRYANT 7 YEARS

JOSEPH ANTHONY SCALISE 18 YEARS

: Ashleigh Anne Love years: 19

: Justin Lee Hocker years: 24

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: Jarrod Alan Chrisman years: 23

: Pedro Adam Ketron years: 23

: Petty Office 1st Class J. Adam McSween USNavy EODMU~11 years: 26

: Jason Wayne Eggers Jr. 5 days old

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: Andrea Evelyn Kolessar Burke years: 31

: Kevin Michael Kochan years: 22

: Kelly Jean Kirkpatrick years: 21

: "Manny" Manuel Marcopulos Lopez III years: 26

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: Heather Dawn Crawford years: 17

: "Manny" Manuel Marcopulos Lopez III years: 26

: Jonathon "Jon" Edward Hampton years: 19, 4 m

: Shawn Patrick Yahna years: 23

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: Christopher M. Richards years: 20

THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT

.....by Christine Ross in memory of Lucas Christopher Ross 1979 - 2001

I woke up early this morning
Just as the sun was beginning to rise.
I reached out for my husband.
He wasn't there, to my surprise.

I arose and went to the window.
On the porch was his shadowy form.
He was probably just reminiscing
In the misty veil of the dawn.

Silently I remained inside
Hidden secretly from his sight.
Allowing him his solitude
Outside in the pale moonlight.

His silhouette took my breath away.
The eerie resemblance of our son
The one that died many years ago
Leaving us grieving and so alone.

Quiet tears began to fill my eyes
With memories of life and joy.
Longing once more for days gone by.
Wishing my husband still had his boy.

I pondered in the stillness
The pain this man should have been spared.
I wanted to go out and hug him
And tell him how much I cared.

I dared not disturb his reverie
Because I know how I cherish mine,
So I waited inside just watching him
As the clock ticked away the time.

I felt a warm hand on my shoulder,
A whisper "You can't sleep either hun?"
I turned quickly away from the window.
Standing next to me was my husband.

So I gazed back out the window.
The silhouette I had seen was gone.
Then my husband said "It's okay sweetie,
"He's been out there all night long."

© 2007 - Christine Ross

Published in
LIVING WITH LOSS MAGAZINE
Summer 2007, Volume 22 No. 2
Bereavement Publications, Inc.

"I loved the boy with the utmost love of which my soul
is capable of and he is taken from me -
yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure,
I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it"

letter of William Wordsworth
on the death of his son, 1812

I USED TO CALL YOU DADDY

.....by Christine Ross In memory of Lucas Christopher Ross 1979 - 2001

I used to call you Daddy
Back when I was very small.
I'd ride upon your shoulders,
It would make me feel so tall.

Many years we shared together,
Skiing and camping, and fishing,
Working together, talks at lunch,
All the times that we spent wishing.

Pitch and catch and mountain biking,
Back roads when we went Jeeping,
We had so many good times Dad,
Lots of memories well worth keeping.

I left you for another life.
It was my time to go away.
Just remember that I'm with you
Every minute of every day.

When your time comes to join me
You'll hear me calling out to you......
"Hey friend! Hey Dad! Hey Father!"
And I'll still call you "Daddy", too.

© 2004 - Christine Ross

My son,
a perfect little boy of five years and three months,
has ended his earthly life.
You can never sympathize with me;
you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away.
A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man,
and now the poorest of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, on the death of his son

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.

~Jewish Proverb

When I was a little girl,
Dad, you were my hero.
Some things never change

~ unknown

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

~ Lydia M. Child

One night a father overheard his son pray:
Dear God,
Make me the kind of man my Daddy is.
Later that night, the Father prayed,
Dear God,
Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

~ Anonymous

When I was a boy of fourteen,
my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one,
I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

~ Mark Twain

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons

© Johann Schiller

A father is someone that holds your hand at the fair,
makes sure you do what your mother says,
holds back your hair when you are sick,
brushes that hair when it is tangled because mother is too busy,
lets you eat ice cream for breakfast, but only when mother is away.
He walks you down the aisle and tells you everything's gonna be okay.

~ Unknown

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

~ Knights of Pythagoras

The greatest gift I ever had came from God,
and I call him Dad!

~ Anonymous

It doesn't matter who my father was;
it matters who I remember he was.

~ Anne Sexton

My father didn't tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it.

~ Clarence B. Kelland

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

~ Anonymous










They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her,
a father adores his daughter.
Whoever she grows up to be,
she is always to him that little girl in pigtails.
She makes him feel like Christmas.
In exchange,
he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years,
the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps.

~ Unknown

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person,
he believed in me.

© Jim Valvano

Anyone can be a father,
but it takes someone special
to be a dad.

~ unknown

THE PHOTOGRAPH

.....by Christine Ross in memory of Lucas Christopher Ross 1979 - 2001br>

He stood there in the chapel
As he clutched the photograph.
No words were spoken from his lips
All he could do was gasp.

He held the photo to his chest
As tears streamed down his face
Hoping for a miracle
In that "forever goodbye" place.

He glanced down at the photo.
Then a tear fell from his eye
And landed right upon the heart
Of his child that had to die.

No one understood the pain
This grieving father felt.
So they hugged him and his photograph
Not knowing how to help.

This photograph seemed magical
And helped him to understand
That for his child... this one last time
He had to be a man.

So he stood up proud and tall that day
And listened as they spoke
About the life of his child
He still needed in that photo.

He held on to that photograph
Through painful days and weeks.
But finally had to let it go
And let it rest in peace.

Just a stained and wrinkled photograph
Although much more than it seemed
It gave him strength to bear the pain
Never dreamed in his worst of dreams.

This cherished tearstained photograph
Is now a testament to us all
That tears can touch the silenced heart
Of a grieving father's child.

© 2008 - Christine Ross

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