A New Morning

My friend Annika wrote a beautiful poem yesterday, and I wanted to share it with you all. She dedicated it to our Ariella, as well as all the other babies lost too soon. Part of me wants to comment on which bits I find particularly applicable, but I will restrain, and just let you read this beautiful poem.

A New Morning - Annika Pearce

The dawn of a new day breaks

The horizon a hewy peach

The sun peaks over the mountains

Igniting the first morning without you

It feels like you were with me for a lifetime

It feels like you were never really here

Not ever mine to keep forever

A precious gift to look after for just a short while

Maybe God chose me because I am strong

I used to be strong and now I feel like I will crumble

He chose me to grow and nurture you

And now he has the most precious angel

The sun is sitting high in the blue

Surveying the landscape before me

Its light will never touch your face

Nor warm the coolness that overcame you

My love for you makes me cry

My smile is lost in a deep empty ocean

The jealousy stabs my heart a thousand times each beat

My arms ache and my heart is heavy without you near it

The sun falls, the blue is darkening

The world is preparing to sleep and I wish for it to never come

Sleeping stillness, that silence has defeated me forever

On that first day without you