Tracy Craighead Poems

Welcome to the corners of my mind
where not a soul has tread
nor sought passage in kind.
Where not one is ever invited to see
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I pray that God will bless my children.
In the absence of their father
and the crazy of their mother.
In the void of family laughter,
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He is only an hour away, but I can't hold him.
I feel the loss like a pit in my stomach.
Carved out of longing...wanting it to be.
Why God, is he so close, yet so far from me?
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My anger can masquerade as strength, but, for only so long…
the pain will always break through
with a furious howl and a cry of death.
The will to take even one more step
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Cody

My son, stars and moon
I have dreamed and prayed
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DANE

Perfect and small, delicate and sweet
How could something so beautiful, happen to me
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Mary

My gift from God,
My baby girl
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Caitlin

I was in pain, confusion and fear
Lost and scared, adrift, unclear
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Sometimes so alone
But I fear, I like it
Loneliness like a warm worn blanket
I retreat to it like home
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Sweet Sister,

In his wisdom, God could see
That I needed you
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