Jenny Santiago

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It was the morning of the 27th of March 1985.
Me a 14 year old girl, with hopes, dreams feeling so alive.
The day was as any school day would be to me and you.
Home time quarter to two
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For now it feels like a time of yore,
When you touched my heart like none before
The sheer wonder made old become new,
Covering my heart with morning dew
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SEARCHING FOR MY STAR:

After years of darkness, there came light.
So far but yet so bright
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I lost my tender heart, on beautiful eyes that saw good in me.
On beautiful lips that spoke words of kindness setting me free
There is a vast distance apart.
Must I say this out loud, keep still oh tender heart.
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The first time I say your little face,
I understood the term morning grace.
You were encapsulated in my heart,
From that moment I never wanted to be apart.
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Come with me to my majestic place of glee,
My place that I call, the wonder of Three.
Where the air will flow through your mind and soul,
Where nature heals, making you whole.
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Deep within your mind is a chamber called the great escape,
Mine is filled with memories of the breathtaking Cape.
A beauty that plays within your heart,
Expressing this in words is a difficult story to start.
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Still your mind … Delight,
Contrasts and wonder.
Take your time, do not hurry -
Reflect and ponder.
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Happy 13th birthday my special one
My beautiful Connor, my beautiful son
Thanks be to God, you're growing so fast.
What's inside you, are things that will last.
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Life occasionally without emitting a single chime
Sends us people for a reason, a season, or a lifetime
They seem like they are a godsend, and that they are.
At the right moment, becoming your binary star.
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I had a bad dream,
Never to forget what I had seen.
Falling and falling from above,
With the deadly absence of love
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Unbeknown to me, destiny made plans on my behalf,
Sending a woman of true beauty onto my path
She touched my heart in a special and unique way
And since became a part of my every day
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A quarter of a century, the age of twenty five,
Sweet child of mine, here you have now arrived.
Unbelievable - how can this be?
How quickly time pass by, you would agree.
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Lacking nothing, complete of its kind
Pure, undiluted all of this combined.
Is this where the search for perfect would end?
Or maybe a little more time on this we have to spend.
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The Best Poem Of Jenny Santiago

The Westdene Bus Disaster 1985

It was the morning of the 27th of March 1985.
Me a 14 year old girl, with hopes, dreams feeling so alive.
The day was as any school day would be to me and you.
Home time quarter to two

Busses waiting outside the main gate
Hustle and bustle not to be late
The bus ride home meant having a giggle and a teenage chat....
Little did we know that day will determine out fate.

Without any warning or request,
My life changed forever more because of what I saw next!
The yellow bus in front of me lost control and drove into the Westdene Dam.
Until this day I hear that slam.

Pandemonium, confusion, panic and unbelief
The beginning of the darkest grief
I stood next to the dam in a dreamlike state.
Nightmare! ! ! ! I needed to wake! !

Just standing there looking upon,
The darkest of water, knowing my friends are gone.
I remember holding, holding and holding my breath.
But reality sunk in at the sight of death.

Still standing there as if cast in stone
Never in my 14 years did I feel so alone.
My entire being aced, I needed to go!
But my mind and body said NO!

There I stood for hours on end,
Hoping and praying, please! please! let me see just one friend!
This was not to be that fateful day.
Because 42 children passed away

The next morning wherever I looked, I had the sight of an empty desk.
I felt a grief so deep within my chest.
Why does this happen to a 14 year old girl?
My entire being was trapped in a whirl.

42 White coffins the mass funeral would be.
Was this suppose to set me free?
The answer to that is NO!
As white then became a foe.

29 Years later I ask myself, how do you feel?
Will you ever completely heal?
The answer to that I do not know.
As the healing process is painfully slow

My dearest angel friends allow me to walk away.
Never will I forget that forever changing day.
Please set me free,
This to you is my plea.

Forever I will remember you.
But no longer in a state of rue
You have made me and us who we are.
Forever you will be my guidance star.

My friends this is the hardest thing for me to do.
To myself I have to be true.
Today I have to let you go.
I no longer want to be in a state of kayo.

42 Angels up above,
You have taught me the reason of love.
Rest quietly now,
As to you my head I bow.

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