Child Obituary Poems

Dear Penfold 

Through the eyes of a warchild and she was me ..the world was beautiful and I trusted and respected people who were big...

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I wish I could tell you that I touched an angel's wing today.
They enveloped me in comfort and carried  me gently on my way.
I...

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“When I Get To Heaven” 
As I walked to her bedroom door, I paused to wipe a tear.
I had to stay strong, God would take...

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I looked at the obituary,
Read the words inside
And did a double take about
The person who had died.

He was a famous chief of what
They call the...

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I have no comfort,
to bring to you… 
No drum to start a song. 
No gift for innocence. 

I have never lost a child. 
Let me...

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I should be ecstatic, I should have tears of joy shining in my eyes, 
But as I watch the ultrasound I feel a gut wrenching...

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Wild Sheep

Hero of the people I stood tall.
Yet by my wicked hand my flight did stall,
and so shame struck like a musket ball.

Rattled of mind...

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Electroconvulsive therapy,
     a last ditch avail
able effort optioned, aye bewail
as desperation if standard
     psychological measures peter

 ...

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What If Destiny... 
Deeded Mine Singular Default Mode To...

Communicate (temporarily,
     strictly and hypothetically)
     merely allowing me to...

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Or Woman, Or Child, Or...

The following elucidated
     conjecture actually can
(reed best) be taken with a grain
     of...

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A couple of twisted shacks composed in Card Board City in Everywhere 

County the nameless man or woman spits out another tooth with 
 ...

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Breathe, why
The sky, why
My heart, why
Living, why

The past, to die

I am not in sky
I am not at all
I am if at all
Underneath the leaf of...

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I can no longer hide, I admit that I cried
When I heard kids went live, and committed suicide
They had no one to confide, felt they...

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He
Snuffed out
Three lives in
In the matter 
An Heartbeat Sunday.
He live, they died, why Lord?
Now a mother left to cry 
Alone to ask why him? and...

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There lived a man by the Peppercorn Tree.
Upon a night he called on me.
So I asked the Abbajah for his help.
This would my first, here,...

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