Poem: DO NOT FORGET

Do Not Forget

I have learned to love you more with each breaking day

and I tell you I love you more,

than I did the first year of our lives

we knew together.

now . . . . now that grief binds you tight

in remembrance of those who are dead or dying.

Try not let death seize you in it's embrace

to know that each moment you are alive to grieve

you are also alive to live

I am not here to bind you to me

but only to love you

and my loving embrace

in support of our lives

lived together (not alone).

Death reminds us . . .

make time for the living

let them love you

in the depths of your misery, love and pain

death reminds us that we are all suffering

in loss and love

in love and death,

in birth and living.

Do not forget me . . .

the dead whisper to us

do not forget

do not forget the warm lives and souls that populate your life

do not forget

I am here to support and love

we need each other

we need others

I have learned to love you more with each breaking day

I whisper to you do not forget me

do not forget them

do not forget

do Not forget

Shhh my love . . .

do not forget

to live.

David McCullough

November 21, 2015