Barbara Barry-Nishanian Poet Rhyme

When Your Only Child Leaves Home

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WHEN YOUR ONLY CHILD LEAVES HOME

When your only child leaves home
day your life’s, forever changed.
Feel as if your entire world
forever… been rearranged.

Only God could understand
emotions try to contain.
No way possibly illustrate
unbearable grief… and pain.

Where once joy and laughter
find loneliness and despair.
Photographs, all remaining
they’ve left, gone…no longer there.

From the moment you gave birth
knew their heart, you couldn’t keep.
Years knew this day was coming
many nights…cried self to sleep.

“Sons a gift from Jehovah,”
learn comes at terrible cost.
Sad when have to experience 
such an… unbearable loss.
        
We long once more, to hold them 
better memories, chance to make.
But they and Jehovah God,
know that time’s past…now too late.

Barbara Barry-Nishanian
July 21, 2018 copyright
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Connie Marcum Wong September 21, 2018 at 1:57 AM The only thing that brings back that joy is when they present you with a grandchild to love. My son gave me a grandson but they live across the ocean, but then my youngest had a daughter I have helped raise and the joy is back in my life, so I understand how you feel. Blessings, Connie Barbara Barry-Nishanian September 21, 2018 at 2:13 AM You are blessed. I feel alone. I am only child, had only child, who wants no child. Not even grand-cat or grand-dog. I have one of each thank God!

Lyric Man July 21, 2018 at 11:02 PM Barbara.. such a sad love write! Barbara Barry-Nishanian September 21, 2018 at 2:10 AM Yes i t is. Try to tell young parents cherish time with child, because time flies by so fast.