THE WORST LOSS – the death of a child
They tell me
I have experienced
The Worst Loss.
Why do I recoil?
No one wants to be
The Worst:
The worst parent,
The worst teacher,
Even the worst loser.
That’s part of it.
I don’t want to be
The one at the bottom.
No one does.
But there’s more -
It isn’t true.
The Worst Loss
is any loss
a person tries to walk through
without being held
by the hand of God.
–Cherry Winkle Moore
October 24, 2010
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