Lamentations

Lend me your inner ear
Can’t you hear it....
The resounding wailing
In my head.....
Don’t you understand 
It is because my only child is dead
6 months, 1, 2, years may pass
This new existence is 
Still hard to grasp 
Even behind my stoic demeanor 
The screeching in my mind 
Never seems to die down 
What a confinement of insanity 
That life has propelled at me 
Burying my child before their time 
Is not fair and only gives me 
Anxiety and unbearable grief 
The echos of my screams 
Are when I’m awake and when I’m asleep
I will never find any kind of peace 
With the death of my child
It does not get better with time
Nobody can pay attention to 
My thought always racing 
And they fail to listen to 
The tones of my lamentations

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