One Year Since His Death

The following is a poem I wrote on the anniversary of my son's death. It is hard to believe that now a year has passed since that tragic day...

were you astonished?

(i love that word

  so prevalent in

       mark’s gospel)

were you?

                i mean that

family

  for which you

agonized

hope for

has now come to

be

and this morning

(a year since you

died)

we walked silently

in the dark

to restoration

point

lit a fire

and thought of

you

also astonished

we know you

were with us

last summer

as we

with abandon

laughingly

leapt again and

again

into that mighty

river

the grief has passed

sadness remains.

9/29/2011