Infants Remembered In Silence (IRIS) - Poems

For You

By Alison Rhodes

For Fallon, my beautiful daughter December 26, 2001

You’ve gone ahead,
And left me behind.
Thoughts and memories are what I find.
Consumed by what I should have done;
God, why couldn’t I have been the one?
Peace is there and then it is not.
I’m shaky, cold, and then I am hot.
Food is no comfort, nor is the wine.
You are now His, but once you were mine.
I’m left in a world that is bittersweet;
For here live two earth angels my heart keeps.
Christian and Madelyn, your big sisters,
Who were there to meet you when you were delivered!
How they were amazed by your tiny fingers.
Oh God! I pray all the memories linger.
Your daddy is strong and hides his emotion,
But inside I know he is like the ocean.
Tossed and swept and thrown about,
Because you we now have to live without.
We have seen the wonders of God’s grace...
But, oh, how we long to see your face.
You’ve gone ahead,
And left me behind.
Thoughts and memories are what I find...

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