Heather Lea Latham
born to heaven on August 21, 1989
She was born and went to heaven on 8/21/89.
The sound of laughter's ring
You've moved on to your final rest
A place where angels sing
A land where flowers never fade
Where little children play
They say true love will never die
We'll meet again some day.
~ Author Unknown
By Barbara Crooker
miscarried, unborn, removed by decree,
taken too soon, crossed over.
They slip red mittens in our hands,
smell of warm wet wool,
are always out of sight.
We glimpse them on escalators,
over the shoulders of dark-haired women;
they return to us in dreams.
We hold them, as they evanesce;
we never speak their names.
How many children do you have?
Two, we answer, thinking three,
or three, thinking four;
they are always with us.
The lost children come to us at night and whisper
in the shells of our ears.
They are waving goodbye on schoolbuses,
they are separated from us in stadiums,
they are lost in shopping malls with unspeakable pools,
they disappear on beaches,
they shine at night in the stars.
A friend can hear a tear drop.
for Christopher and others.
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