Like A Dream. Poem by Shaakiera Schroeder

How can this be?
Could this be real?
I can’t believe
A whole year has passed,
Like a dream…
Gone by in a blink of an eye
Emotions raw…tears still
Warm …against the cheeks it rolls down most of the day.
Lives are lived as if in a dreamlike trance, where uncertainty is the only real thing.
We approach each day with a new sense of fear-
A kind we never knew existed before!

I find it strange when you have lost someone you love, you are
Reminded…NO expected to live life to the fullest…
How?
When, now you are filled with nothing but, this debilitating fear.
All the things you use to take for granted, now terrifies you beyond reason.
Simple things like allowing your son to ride his bicycle or hanging out with his friends paralyses you if he is not within your sight…
The fear of losing another is petrifying…simply unbearable!

So how do you live?
From second to second,
Praying it’s uneventful …
Wishing your time on earth would be over soon…
Reuniting you with your precious boy!

And as we remind ourselves of the shortness of life
We try to live right
Be kind…show compassion to creatures…humans, every, living thing.
We were born by the Grace of God…
He will carry us through this voyage we call living…and
It is by that same Grace…
That we will be returned to our Creator, where only
Pure bliss waits!

Shaakiera Schroeder 24/03/10