The precious gift of healing

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