7.20.2009 My dear friend Carol wrote this poem for me, in honor of Chris's 6th Angel date.
As this day dawns bright and new
I want to send my love to you
These days are hard and full of pain
but look ahead, there is much to gain
Let blessings and love replace the hurt
and bring new life, like flowers from dirt
Six years have passed one by one
since you last spoke, to you beautiful son
Your pain runs deep and I understand
but we have to survive in this lonely land
Absorb the beauty of the shining Sun
and remember with pride - how far you have come.
~Carol Thompson
Thank you Carol, your words are beautiful! and words I will follow in honor of Chris.
i carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear no fate
(for you are my fate, my sweet)
i want no world
(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
--e. e. cummings