You Are Here For A Reason.
I'm Truly Sorry For All You've Been Through.
It Was Never Your Fault.
You Were Just A Child.
There's Nothing Wrong With You.
You Are Safe, Secure, And Lovable Just The Way You Are.
If You Could Have Done Things Differently, Then Surely You Would Have.
Know You Have The Gift: Free Will.
You Can Do Anything You Decide To Do.
Even Though We've Just Met, I Love You And I Understand.
I Will Always Be Here For You.
May You Live A Healthy, Happy, And Very Long Life.
May All Your Dreams Come True.
Last night I held my son so close and rocked him as I told him "thank you" as I do each night just before he goes to sleep. I also tell him these words the first thing in the morning. Is it any wonder "thank you" was his very first words?
I squeezed the moment into the future: how I will be thankful for this moment when I can no longer hold him this way, and then it transported me back to holding my first born son 30 years ago who was the same age. It is the profoundest moment of love and gratitude I've ever felt as tears poured from my eternally grateful eyes: pure joy. Love and gratitude transcended time and space. I transcended the fall from the garden.
"Thank You"
Bruce Burkey
Copyright @ 2024
Eternal Sweetheart
(To be read using your voice)
Inside
she is receiving
a mere consolation
from her sweetheart
and the sun decided
to be just as kind
today.
Birds are singing
one last hoorah
before
the fast approaching
inevitable.
Unseasonably warm
this time of year
isn't it?
Seasons come
season go
soon will come
her season too
and
she'll join him
then
in their season
of the eternal
(shhhhhh to a long whisper)
sweeeeetheeaaaart.
Bruce Burkey
Copyright @ 2024