Into The Unknown. Poem by Kenzie Lynn

My sadness is like a ship on the waves.
A ship that rocks and steadies itself in the wind,
A ship that's built to last.

Looking at all the photos of all of us as we grow older.
I am looking at the last photo,
The photo of you,
But I don't really have to anymore,
Because I have so many pictures of you within me,
Where your memory lives.

Mum puts her arms around me.
Dad's eye's close as he streches out his arms to fit us both within them.
I feel my head fall to my chest with tiredness,
And they carry me upstairs to bed in the darkness.

I fell my mind close down;
I feel myself float right out of my limp and lifeless body
That now lies on the bed, filled with exaustion.

Somehow I 'm both awake and asleep,
Watching my parents watch over me together,
And I try to tell them what has happened,
But I'm not sure they can hear me.

'It's OK, ' I whisper,
'She can never truely die, because she's inside us.'
I know that where ever you are, whatever darkness you face,
You're not alone, either, because a part of each of us is within you too.

I look down at mum and dad,
As they hold hands over my sleeping body,
And wipe each other's silent tears from their faces,
Together and alone.

I see your face;
Your eye's are as huge and blue as the summers sky,
And your lips seem as soft as cloud linings...
As they whisper to me.

And from somewhere deep within,
I feel you finally fade away;
Fade far, far away INTO THE UNKNOWN,
Where I know that I can no longer follow you.