Tuesday Confessional

On September 28th 2006, United States House of Representatives declared October 15th as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.

On October 15th, consider lighting a candle at 7:00 p.m. (in your respective time zone) to create a wave of light across the nation, to honor all babies born sleeping, or whom we have carried but never met, or those we have held but could not take home, or the ones that came home…but could not stay.

I will light 4 on Friday. 

not like you

i am a mother
though not like you.

you cradle your sweet baby in your arms,
mine are empty; i hold him in my heart.

you brush her soft curly hair, and tie pretty pink bows just right.
a lock of his hair is tucked neatly in a book.

you pick daisies and tie them in a chain to wear around her neck.
i cut lilacs and arrange them in a vase to set at his grave.

you look forward to dreams and plans.
i hold on to memories.

i am a mother,
though not like you.
- Sheri Hess