December 18

A Birthday Wish

Poetry

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When someone you love is diagnosed with dementia as a caregiver your own life gets turned inside out as well. In fact probably even more as the caregiver. But really who knows? All of us are having our own experiences through our personal realities. Who are any of us to say what's real or not real in any given moment for anyone else. 

For me poetry and music have been consistent ways to examine emotions and personal growth the experience gifts me. Recently, I have found myself, once again, pulling at the threads my emotions through poetry. Some how by placing one word next to another I am able to find peace with grief. But even more powerful, I have been able to unravel the gift of the journey. 

Here are two of my most recent poems:

a cardinal rests
it’s frozen reflection
~ encapsulated
your colorful life stilled
in a lake of memories

image of guitar from the neck with the poem Sing Me overlaid.

For Jeremiah on his birthday

candles

A Birthday Wish

For you
the song we sing,
to celebrate your birth,
is more a hymn
than a song of glee.

It’s a gift that death
cannot erase
your life
surviving
in our memories.

A bright sun
suspended
in a cold December sky,
the warmth of love
radiating from within.

We ice the cake
and blow the candles out
with a wish —
though our arms are empty
that our hearts remain full of you.

©Delaina J. Miller 2013

About the author

Creator of sounds. Poet on an energetic journey with words. Explorer of Frequencies.


 

Delaina J Miller

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