Releasing Balloons In The Park......I Grieve For My Boys Poem by John Tansey

Releasing Balloons In The Park......I Grieve For My Boys



My two sweet, sweet boys...
I must let you go
and, crawling back through the
gaping hole that is left of me,

Salvage some peace, some purpose
for this loss I endure
in letting you, both,
slip through my fingers,

Like the silken strings of two
helium-filled balloons
that float up and away, skyward
with all, our shared memories,

As you both run to your Mother
saying, 'Mommy, look up at the sky! '
'Somebody must be crying
over those lost Balloons'.

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John Tansey

John Tansey

Bronx, New York
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