Father Death Poems

7/19/2019
This darkness is all I know, 
a widow's wardrobe of funeral clothes.
It hangs curtained under my eyes, 
the seed inside me grows allowing the little...

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Today, like yesterday and the day before I have to start over again.
I have to learn to live, laugh and love through the pain, 
Learn...

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If only I had the courage…

Constantia Clinic, 16 December,
A day forever to be remembered.
You last day on this earth,
It was only twenty months and a...

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Goodbye my child, I am the sinner but God called upon you. 
Your life was so short, the years didn't even tick till two. 

Goodbye...

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Today is a reminder of six months of heartache, 
Loss and an empty nursery room. 
You were taken so young, a rosebud yet to bloom....

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As I awake for a new day, tired, sleepy, not smiling.
Looking at your photos bedside, I am crying
The world is my enemy, I don’t love...

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God made you from clay with his hands
Beautiful and pure like the rose you are.
Pink cheeks and eyes sparkling like stars,
Yet, unknown we were of...

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Dearest Schylar, these words seek forgiveness for dad.
Forgiveness for unfulfilled promises, that makes me so sad. 
My heart ache, my mood is gloomy, yes I...

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A tiny girl, given to us but only for a little while,
Tine feet, tiny hands with the biggest smile, 
A million memories, hugs and kisses...

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As the Djembe drum beats to the rythm of my heart,
The wedding reception is about to start. 
I hear your laughter from across the room,...

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A smile on his face
His very pale face
As his body was moved 
And placed in the coffin

A life not so well lived
A drunkard, thief and...

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My smile has dimmed
Not as bright as before
My daddy died
Him hitting the floor
and leaving his daughter to deal with the emotional bombardment, alone

I was doing...

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Wrong move, wrong move, 
Gun in hand barking strong
Knocked the lady with basket in hand,
Her only wrong, is to feed her throng

King man that's wrong,
Pretending...

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Daddy there's a monster under my bed! 
No... Silly girl...
You have been misled...
But daddy I hear it breathing!
I know it's real!
Dear, you know your cries...

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A Nation in distress, 
Our Land is in distress 
Father deliver the Nation
Father deliver our Land 
Cleanse the Nation
Cleanse our Land 
We look to You
We...

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Voices sing in exultation,
love fills my eternal soul,
an angel by my bed is standing,
to save me it is her goal.

Never in my dreams of glory,
within...

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deep monophonic sacred melodies 
resounding inner tremors and oscillation
reverberating incursion agitates my soul
stirring an ethereal timelessness of mystery
that transcends the enigma of life and death
and...

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"WHEN SHE COMES FOR ME"


death used to frighten me
but I welcome it like
the hatred some feel for me.
lady death could never hate me.
I serve her...

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When primeval men were made,
Someone said they were perfect,
But I ask them how plausibly so
Can perfection beget imperfection?
They laughed and I laughed in return.
Some others...

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I am death thru those that see me see death, I am the border thru those that see me see an line, I speak but...

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