Mourning Song

Hello Dear Reader

I am closing in on the final appeal for help with my book. If you didn’t read the post titled Brave (because it was a long one!), you can look for that post here on the blog and get the whole story on the story. But the jist of it is, I am asking anyone and everyone who reads my blog and who finds my message a worthy cause, to pre-order a copy of a book I am writing for $25 by sending to PO Box 304 Frankfort, MI 49635. Please include your name, address, phone number, email and how many books you would like to order, or, if you would like, email me privately for some of the incentives I am offering for larger donations, like original artwork, copies donated in your name, your name in the acknowledgements of the book or a reading for you and a group of people. The book will comprise some original paintings, poetry, new insights not available on the blog, and will otherwise be a book about my experience of loss and of searching for hope & healing in the midst of my beautiful boy’s tragic choice to end his life. THANK YOU for your support and encouragement of my words, however you receive them, here &/or by pre-ordering my book.

Today, I share one poem.

Mourning Song

by christina ryan-stoltz

Baby bird

Please

Tell me why

Your song fills me with sorrow

Not because

I dont already know

Or cannot understand

Just remind me how the song started

Soft and sweet

With hope on your wings

Make your home in my silvering hair

Stay with me here

In all seasons

I will listen

I will sing along

And when the time comes

I will carry your tune

long after you

Leave the nest…