always remembering Eloise

always remembering Eloise

A Poem by knives of sunshine

i felt her like a bag of tricks
one perfect somersaulting laugh
i marvelled as her tiny heart
beat brightly on a photograph

i waited for her to appear
part best-beloved, part enemy
not of my flesh, yet of my blood
my baby sister yet to be

i never got to hear her cry
or stick a plaster on her knee
play scary monsters in the dark
or beat her at monopoly

her absence feels as solid as oak
the " might have beens" it's fragile leaves
which tumble gently to the ground
always    
              remembering
                                     Eloise

© 2011 knives of sunshine


Author's Note

knives of sunshine
we lost her to a still birth
she had been dead inside my mother's womb for 8 days.

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i am so so sorry. Must have been very hard on you.

Posted 13 Years Ago



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