The Meaning of Life

[Daddy Bear]

the words on the envelope cost her a breath

 

"please do not open 'til after my death"

 

inside was a note with a large and small X

 

over verses in daddy's coarse handwritten text

 

people leave us, it said

 

and they don't leave much with us

 

questions, they leave us

 

they leave us with many holes

 

 

we all must lose someone

 

unless we had no one

 

I lost my ever one

 

but still had you, little one

 

 

and didn't we have some kicks

 

houses of popsicle sticks

 

watching those kiddie flicks

 

how they made my eyes roll

 

 

mother's an angel bright

 

and though I must join the light

 

we'll sleep at your sides tonight

 

you'll be the middle one

 

 

baby, you must

 

understand what you meant to us

 

the product of hope and trust

 

born in love's purity

 

 

you were my everything

 

you eased my suffering

 

when you put our wedding rings

 

on that chain that you wore

 

 

and you must live on now

 

live and be strong now

 

we'll be there somehow

 

as you pass on that legacy

 

 

hand down our wedding bands

 

and make sure they understand

 

write something like this and

 

keep it safe in a drawer

 

and when daddy's poem had come to a close

 

she wiped a last tear from the tip of her nose

 

she felt a great joy when her babies were born

 

and they all lived forever in subsequent form

 

 

now, this is the meaning that everyone misses

 

in the unbroken pattern of childhood's kisses

 

regardless of who bore those children, my friends

 

if you give them your love, then your life never ends.

[amure]

thats heaps good, keep it up you got something going there

[karvala]

Masterful! Really good.

[doyathink]

Priceless......

[CallingAllAngels]

Wow...wonderful SB...just wonderful.

[brando]

Your avatar is so fitting to the title of your poem.