'letters From Heaven'
It started with a letter,
One turned into two
Two into many more…
Pen pals we became and
That’s how our friendship
Started, at the age of fourteen
Until we decided to
Finally meet, when we turned seventeen….
A few days before your birthday
The date was set,
but that meeting never happened,
The letters also dried up
No words just silence…
Until I send you a Christmas card
And your brother decided to search for me,
I’ll never forget that Sunday, 16 January 1994…
He looked just like you did,
In the photo you send me…
I really wasn’t prepared for
What he had to say,
You died on your way home from school
Back in October already…
Brain hemorrhage is what he said…
Before he uttered those
Words the tears were
Already streaming down my face,
I knew something must have
Happened to you, because you would
Never just go silent and not make contact…
I use to read your letters over and over,
For months after your brother told me,
Until I made peace with the fact
that we would never meet,
least not in the way we have planned…
*In loving memory of, Reginald Waldeck*
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Copyright © Wilma Neels | Year Posted 2011
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