Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve Visit to the Cemetery


When I arrived babyland was covered in snow. I placed Caitlin's sapphire angel on the snow. I thought about leaving the blanket of snow as it was, peaceful, but I began to move the snow slowly away to find Caitlin's stone. I did find it after some time. I placed the angel from Caitlin's grammy on her stone and told her about how much Grammy missed her. Then I kept digging to find her angel, her star, and her toy. I gave the toy a squeeze and it made the sounds that Caitlin loved to listen to in the hospital. I was so grateful that the toy was still working, after a year the toy still works. Her butterfly and flowers seemed to be gone. I sat at her grave and talked to her and told her about the angel I made for her at the house. Then decided that she needed a snowman, or rather a snowman-angel. Admittedly, it looks like a man with arms, but it's supposed to be a snowman-angel and those are wings not arms. I sat for a while longer in the snow. I could not sing this visit, and on the way home wrote a poem in my head that I've already posted.






3 comments:

  1. This is a gorgeous post, made me cry :(
    I hope you have a lovely christmas. And i'm sure your daughter is in the heavens above :)

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  2. Thank you Mademoiselle. It was kind of you to visit, and welcome to the blogoshpere. Peace to you in this holiday season.

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  3. It's beautiful, and it looks like a snow-angel to me :). I know how hard these days can be. I hope the holidays are peacefull and gentle for you.

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