A burdensome Back To School - A poem for those who struggle with back to school pictures
It is now the back to school season With photographs taken at doors And wide happy smiles in clothes still too big And kids who are babies no more! As a woman who longs to have children This time is so conflicting and tough For I long to be the one taking photos As I have waited for long enough! Each picture is ever so painful And sometimes it's so hard to breath As the grief and the sadness they overwhelm And I think that it might never leave. Each picture brings a great sense of longing And so many what-could-have-beens And I wonder what it must feel like To be the one inside that scene But I choose not to sit in the bitterness Or the jealousy rising inside And thank God for each little miracle On earth or on the other side And I feel the Lord’s arms bringing comfort And hear him whisper so clear That he knows just how I am feeling And that he is drawing near. And though the pain is still bubbling And the grief won't fully go away I know that I never wil...