My Saddest Day
April 21, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
It all started when in at five past midnight
Now I am lying stiff and cold
Deep in troubled dreamless sleep.
Cotton wool stuffed in my nostrils,
I cannot breathe.
A rag tightening my jaws together,
I cannot protest.
My feet bound together,
Surely there is no escape this time round.
Granny chose they dress me up in my favourite suit,
But this time there [...]
Daring Time
January 5, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
You granted me childhood
Allowed me to err
You showed me life
Revealing the secrets
You read my soul
Unwarranted love
*******
You took a path
I could not follow
A right reclaimed
and granted
a thousandfold
*******
Time, re-created,
Is now a gate onto the future
And beyond that gate
Your future has now begun
by Els van den Eynde


