Your Last Night
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Comment from Susan Larson
Having lost two sons of my own, one to a car accident that was his fault, and one to a six year battle with brain cancer, I do know the grief of losing a child. But to the overdose you experienced with your son, I cannot fathom. I'm glad this was cathartic for for. I believe writing always is. My condolences. I know it might ease over time, but it never ends.
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Having lost two sons of my own, one to a car accident that was his fault, and one to a six year battle with brain cancer, I do know the grief of losing a child. But to the overdose you experienced with your son, I cannot fathom. I'm glad this was cathartic for for. I believe writing always is. My condolences. I know it might ease over time, but it never ends.
Comment Written 26-Apr-2020
Comment from dragonpoet
This shows the love you have for your son and the horrible effects drug addiction has on a family. I know you are together now and you have all your questions answered.
joan
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This shows the love you have for your son and the horrible effects drug addiction has on a family. I know you are together now and you have all your questions answered.
joan
Comment Written 21-Jan-2019
Comment from Mary Wakeford
So tragic and heartbreaking, and expressed with the muse of a mother (and I can only imagine a grandmother as well) broken by her son being so close to being saved, yet so far from being saved, by the terrorizing grasp of addiction.
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So tragic and heartbreaking, and expressed with the muse of a mother (and I can only imagine a grandmother as well) broken by her son being so close to being saved, yet so far from being saved, by the terrorizing grasp of addiction.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2017
Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose
Oh, Sister Luna ... I am crying and it comes from deep inside me... Sister. I don't know if I could survive what you go through every day but especially the first year. I know I would have tried to kill myself. You are so strong! I am proud of you, sweet sister. And I love you.
Your beautiful son's picture and Johnny Cash's song intensified the deep grief emotion. Very powerful poem, sweetie pie. To tell you that I know how you feel or that accompany your feelings of grief would be bullshit. I don't know how anyone could possibly feel what you feel. All I can offer is my love and sit by you quietly. I do have candles on my little alter. They burn for you and Michael. May he rest in peace.
Gypsy
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Oh, Sister Luna ... I am crying and it comes from deep inside me... Sister. I don't know if I could survive what you go through every day but especially the first year. I know I would have tried to kill myself. You are so strong! I am proud of you, sweet sister. And I love you.
Your beautiful son's picture and Johnny Cash's song intensified the deep grief emotion. Very powerful poem, sweetie pie. To tell you that I know how you feel or that accompany your feelings of grief would be bullshit. I don't know how anyone could possibly feel what you feel. All I can offer is my love and sit by you quietly. I do have candles on my little alter. They burn for you and Michael. May he rest in peace.
Gypsy
Comment Written 09-Feb-2017
Comment from Wardine
I really enjoyed this piece! I thoroughly appreciated the pacing and wording chosen. The author impacted the reader with their choice of language. I will read more from this author!
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I really enjoyed this piece! I thoroughly appreciated the pacing and wording chosen. The author impacted the reader with their choice of language. I will read more from this author!
Comment Written 08-Feb-2017
Comment from Jackarrie
Hi Jeni
My heart goes out to you, you are in pain and I see why. You may be too hard on yourself. You son made his choice, no matter how difficult it is to accept what he did. He loved you always remember this.
Your letter is so well expressed I hope it helped you
Mary
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Hi Jeni
My heart goes out to you, you are in pain and I see why. You may be too hard on yourself. You son made his choice, no matter how difficult it is to accept what he did. He loved you always remember this.
Your letter is so well expressed I hope it helped you
Mary
Comment Written 08-Feb-2017
Comment from strivinginsc
I feel your pain in your writing. I wish it were a fable to prevent your pain. Know healing will come. In the meantime, your writing is helping others.This is from a mother who also lost a child.
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I feel your pain in your writing. I wish it were a fable to prevent your pain. Know healing will come. In the meantime, your writing is helping others.This is from a mother who also lost a child.
Comment Written 08-Feb-2017
Comment from DonandVicki
A very sad poem. I cannot imagine all of the pain that you must be going through. I know that writing for you is a way of healing, just as it is for me.
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A very sad poem. I cannot imagine all of the pain that you must be going through. I know that writing for you is a way of healing, just as it is for me.
Comment Written 08-Feb-2017
Comment from sanejane
You have bared your soul in this heartrending poem. The loss of a child is the most terrible thing to endure, and to lose him at such a time, in such a way, is unimaginable.
The last voice he heard must have been yours. Maybe that's all he wanted - to hear your voice. While it leaves terrible questions in your mind, it may have been reassuring for him in those last moments. Remember what heroin does - it cancels out bad feelings. He would have drifted away in a happy mist.
Time has made it possible for you to function, even to write wonderful poems - although I believe all of these poems are for him. I also believe that he is with you; you communicate with him through your poetry, and he finds ways of communicating with you. The hard thing is that these are not the ways in which we who live on this earth are used to communicating.
It won't happen in this life, but one day your grief will be resolved.
I try to walk a temporal path, as I have been overwhelmed in the past by spirits asking for help which I feel unable to give, but I was moved by something beyond myself to write that last sentence. When that happens, I go with it. You will know true joy again. I have no more information, but I take it that it means you will be reunited with your son, Mickey. Perhaps you know that already.
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You have bared your soul in this heartrending poem. The loss of a child is the most terrible thing to endure, and to lose him at such a time, in such a way, is unimaginable.
The last voice he heard must have been yours. Maybe that's all he wanted - to hear your voice. While it leaves terrible questions in your mind, it may have been reassuring for him in those last moments. Remember what heroin does - it cancels out bad feelings. He would have drifted away in a happy mist.
Time has made it possible for you to function, even to write wonderful poems - although I believe all of these poems are for him. I also believe that he is with you; you communicate with him through your poetry, and he finds ways of communicating with you. The hard thing is that these are not the ways in which we who live on this earth are used to communicating.
It won't happen in this life, but one day your grief will be resolved.
I try to walk a temporal path, as I have been overwhelmed in the past by spirits asking for help which I feel unable to give, but I was moved by something beyond myself to write that last sentence. When that happens, I go with it. You will know true joy again. I have no more information, but I take it that it means you will be reunited with your son, Mickey. Perhaps you know that already.
Comment Written 07-Feb-2017
Comment from RobertaLee
Considering the emotional content, and the flow of despair and wonderment, questioning and grief it is impossible to "rate" what you have written so I am only doing it that I may respond. It is priceless.
Poetically, this piece written in response to your grief and longing for answers is perfect with all the elements that make empathetic emotion possible for the reader. I hope it helps you Jeni.
Blessings and hope.
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Considering the emotional content, and the flow of despair and wonderment, questioning and grief it is impossible to "rate" what you have written so I am only doing it that I may respond. It is priceless.
Poetically, this piece written in response to your grief and longing for answers is perfect with all the elements that make empathetic emotion possible for the reader. I hope it helps you Jeni.
Blessings and hope.
Comment Written 07-Feb-2017