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Worse Than Death

WORSE THAN DEATH

Calling for you. 
Reaching with my hand. 
Reaching out to feel...
for finger tips, yours. 

No one there!
Where is that grasp?
That bouquet of warmth,
one hand tucked in another. 

Ice cold, cooler, 
freezing, I call for you. 
Call out in confusion, 
the name of our child. 

Ragged hard breathing. 
Then hardly audible...
whispering the names, 
I let go of living . 

In the void but nowhere...
I’m gone from here now.
My fingers still move,
reaching for you.  

-Edlynn Nau 
© April 26, 2020

Dedicated to Covid-19 victims that die without the farewell or affection from their spouse or children.

Copyright © Edlynn Nau | Year Posted 2020

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Jan Terry Date: 3/6/2022 11:52:00 AM Sad but true. May you and your family stay well during these frightening times. Login to Reply

Joe Maverick Date: 11/27/2021 8:20:00 AM Hmm a sad way to go Edlynn.. You evoke the Fright and desperation many must have gone Through.. And yet we know much more now Than when it was being advertised as a new Deadly disease 25th down I am now told on Diseases that can kill list' I have to say now it was The better course to have let it run its course As the amish community did.' I am most Concerned at the death toll from other things Neglected but if I read the hard narrative maybe That is all to the good for some sad individuals' Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 3/6/2022 10:41:00 AM Both my kids are MD’s and they are not lying. At the time of this poem, before vaccines, they were dropping like flies. Believing whatever you want is not reality;it’s tilting at windmills.

Robert Lindley Date: 9/18/2020 6:35:00 AM You gave us another very fine poem. Reality that so many are being separated at time of a life closing. A great message driven piece A fav too. God bless.. Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 9/18/2020 9:32:00 AM It is so sad for any of us to die alone. The times are cruel! So now our poems are grouped by year? But 1014 & 2013 are missing! Do they only store 5 years now?

Michael Tor Date: 7/27/2020 7:40:00 AM Incredible write Edlyn. A favorite. Login to Reply Michael Tor Date: 7/27/2020 11:28:00 AM Edlynn when are you going to start writing again. Hope your dad is well. Read "What If" and "Hell No to the vaccination" Miss you... Edlynn Nau Date: 7/27/2020 9:52:00 AM I had no idea these were here Mike. I better check my mail more often. My children are both doctors so I hear these dreadful, heartbreaking stories & know in an instant how crushing it would be (or think I do) to be so sick and then, to die in a room with strangers. May we all stay well. Then my nearly 90 dad is in a nursing home. Frightening for him and me. I HATE I cannot visit my sweet little dad but through a window. Be CAREFUL OUT THERE! I would miss you Mike. Mask, distance, wash hands, stay home as much as possible. Grace upon us!

Gershon Wolf Date: 4/27/2020 6:17:00 PM Grim, tragic endings,... so well penned. Touching dedication, Edlynn. Take care, Gershon Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 4/27/2020 7:53:00 PM It’s the grim truth for sure! May this not fall on any of us.

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart Date: 4/27/2020 9:04:00 AM Wow. Potent, powerful pen. xomo Login to Reply Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart Date: 4/28/2020 8:12:00 AM Too true <3 Edlynn Nau Date: 4/27/2020 10:44:00 AM Thank you! To pass from this life without anyone to hold our hand, without one familiar voice, or the faces of those we’ve traveled through life with, seems cruel and tragic. This pandemic adds this to the nightmare.