SOLDIER DOWN

                                            SOLDIER DOWN


                           ............."SOLDIER DOWN".................

                         ............."Leave no man behind"...........


                                     Will someone be my hero?





'observation of stillbirth and the aftereffects'  
For my daughter.   V. Mosso

ITS TIME

                                                          " ITS TIME"

Its been "three months now" they say...
You must move on.

NO I silently scream inside, despising the loathsome hot tears
that remind me of my broken-ness.

Only just yesterday, I died.........
Only just yesterday, so it seems.

Has it been only three months?
You cant tell these things, when time has stood still
perhaps, even stopped,
the day I died with you.

You, laying so still in my womb....
For me, eternity surrounds and envelopes itself
around that capsule of "time"....






"In observation of stillbirth:  V.Mosso

Tarry with me here a little longer...

Will you tarry, with me here, but for a moment longer?
Share my sorrow with me just a bit more?

I see this progression called "Life" beginning again with 
Its call to action and demands....
yet, let me tarry here a bit longer, silent in the shards of
death.

I am still pierced and wounded, bleeding and raw.
Incapable of that dire duty to live.....

Will you tarry; here with me, just a little longer, until 
I am stronger, whenever that will be?
Or, alone will I be, forever in this sea...
entangled and enmeshed with these sharp shards of death.




 'life after stillbirth'  V.Mosso

Teddy Bears sit so still

I'm dressing up your bears today Vaughn,
sweaters, overalls, soft socks and booties-
all onto soft fur teddy bears, lifeless.
All the pieces of cloth bought in your name-
...sit in dust, amidst that which was left: a mess.

Author: Broken hearted mommy with empty arms.