Gone now
Your memory still lingers on
I think of the silence that was
So full of the unsaid
And the way you could never really ever
Shed it
Oh I felt it
Somewhere deep inside me
Today as we sat
Talking of the war
And all that befell you
I cried as I understood how it was
For you
You are here with me now
As a memory
And sometimes a voice in my head
And yet at times I also feel
Your spiritual force
As I shed all the sadness I held
Over so many things
I never understood
So many things that ccould never be
Anything other than the way they were
Thank you
For giving birth to me
And even though at times it felt
I walked through fields
Of sorrow and flames
In time I know I will reclaim my peace
Thank you for giving me life
And thank you God
For this allowing me
This precious gift
Of healing