Poetry

by

Rebecca Grace

Love Online

At night you creep into my life

Through heartfelt words on a flickering screen

Love’s talk races through cyberspace;

Soulmates joined, though never seen......

Night after night we write of love

Tapping keys rapidly in the dark.

No one knows my secret joy

Or the place you hold in my heart!

There are lies online, I’m told--

Falsehoods spread for fun.

How do I know that you are true

And my chosen one?

Will you break my heart,

And send me to pain's hated door?

Or will you prove to be true

And bring me love once more?

So many questions plague me,

Friends fill my mind with doubt

But  I return nightly to my screen

As joy triumphs over being without.

My Mother’s Day Miracle

We thought that we had lost you,

that you were at death’s door,

but you fought back again

to be with us once more.

And even though you’ve left us,

and in days to come we’ll cry,

you gave us two last months

to let us say good bye.

So here’s my farewell to you,

my special, loving mother,

you gave me a special life

and my sister and my brothers.

You taught us how to laugh

and showed us right from wrong.

At the end you were still teaching

on how to be so strong.

Now go to see our Daddy

who’s been waiting all these years.

There’s no need to linger,

or worry about our tears.

Know we’ll always love you,

you’ve helped us all to learn.

You’ve given us so much,

asking nothing in return.

We will never lose you

though we travel many miles.

You live on in thoughts and prayers

and in our daily smiles.

So we celebrate your life

and your loving, happy ways,

you showed us one more miracle

before you went away.

Now our Daddy waits for you

in a place that’s bright with sun,

So we say good bye, our mother,

Your work on earth is done.

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