I Miss Your Laughter, Fun, and Gentleness

June 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Memorial Day, which was observed on May 29.

Today’s poem is about a mother’s love for her dead child.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I miss your laughter, fun, and gentleness.

I miss the things I used to do for you.

I miss the time, now filled with emptiness,

When each day was a stage for something new.

I miss your love, though mine for you remains,

A passion with no outlet to the sea,

A teardrop in a desert, that contains

What's left of my maternal ecstasy.

I miss your presence, like a silent chord

That anchored even solitude in grace.

I miss, for my love's labor, the reward

Of seeing some small pleasure in your face.

All these I miss, and yet they are all here

Within my heart, far more than I can bear.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/imiss7.html. For more poems about death, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

This week's theme: Memorial Day

May 29: Make a Little Time for Public Mourning

May 30: Make My Death a Canticle for Peace

May 31: Maybe Grief Needs Ritual, as Music

June 1: Maybe It Was Worth It, Maybe Not

June 2: Maybe There's a Good Excuse for Fighting

June 3: Memories Are All That I Have Left

June 4: I Miss Your Laughter, Fun, and Gentleness