Empty Arms

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  • Loss

    Empty Arms

    Silent tears fall
    On a white sterile gown
    Shadows lurking
    They don’t make a sound
    Mothers passing
    Laughing in the hall
    Beaming Dad’s
    Standing proud and tall
    No one notices my
    Dark, lonely room
    The shades pulled down
    Trying to hide the gloom

    Empty arms aching
    I will never be the same
    On this cold day in hell
    When the doctors came
    Such grief on their faces
    I knew my baby had died
    My heart shattered
    As I broke down and cried
    A baby boy I heard
    One of the doctors say
    My heart grew numb
    As they turned away

    Everyone is hurrying
    How can this be
    When this pain is
    So deep inside of me
    How can everything go
    On just like before
    When I can’t hold my baby
    Or feel anymore
    In anquish I scream
    In despair I cry
    How can life be so cruel
    To let my baby die

    Leaving the hospital
    In a worn old wheelchair
    I hang my head
    As the mother’s stare
    The hardest thing
    That I’ve ever done
    Is going out these doors
    Without my son

    (C) Linda Hill

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    carollynn1964 commented on Empty Arms

    03-06-2009

    I Definately Feel Your Pain! But It does Get Better.

    Tamstarr commented on Empty Arms

    01-28-2009

    Can't even begin to imagine, although through this poem you are taken on that sorrowful journey xxx

    Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

    Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

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