Eternity.........

          Mommy why do you look so sad,
        sitting and staring with eyes of red.
      Hands cover your sullen swollen face,
   was it something I did, something I said?


 A tear stained photograph tattered and torn,
   of a man you loved a very long time ago.
           On the beaches of Normandy he
                        breathed his last,
   yet all these years later you will not let go.


       What about daddy, how did he feel?
  This mans portrait on display for all to see.
     I look like you with dark hair and eyes,
     why did you expect me to look like he?


 Bright blue eyes and thick wavy blonde hair,
   but mommy it was a time that is no more.
      You met another and became his wife,
 but your heart was resistant that is for sure.


   Your mind was made up, carved in stone,
you were having a boy, blonde hair, blue eyes.
    Disappointment you felt was too much
                               to bear,
         for eternity all will hear your cries.


 Instead you received great pleasure and joy,
    packing my bags and sending me away.
It took a long time, now I finally understand,
    nothing I could do, nothing I could say.


Not much time left, you will be leaving soon,
     will you be buried with daddy or with
                            your twin?
       No, she will be buried in Normandy,
away from her family, but forever with him.


         Mommy why do you look so sad,
       sitting and staring with eyes of red.
     Hands cover your sullen swollen face,
  was it something I did, something I said?

 

 

Written by:
Karen Palumbo
Photography by:
Robert Palumbo
8/22/2007
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