Sewing Love

How to Capture Between pages Or pixels Or caught between Stitches Do memories catch Between the threads? Does love Linger in the ink? One can pray In the silence Where laughter once rang Find the steady beat Of a sewing machine Where your heart used to beat Trying to sew Myself back together If I just keep Sewing From the heart I can bind My heart up Fit pieces together Here is where it tore When Elisif’s laugh was lost Here when Phil’s light went out And here, this big one When my grandfather died These old stitches are fraying Starting to come undone Here the slapdash job From when Jackie put a gun to her head Here from Steve being ripped away So suddenly This bit holds up well For an eight year old’s Handiwork And here a spot needs darning My heart is worn It needs Many a repair But I have little time For the careful stitching Of so many holes Yet they wont Close On their own So I keep busy With fabric patches