In Memoriam (SDS 1960-2005)

Sitting high atop her perch Brunette locks fly across her somber eyes Gazing down from the tree tops Lights of crimson and white appear The wetness slips down porcelain cheeks Recalling the moment time stopped The click clack clank of the gurney's gears Frantic shouts and radio static Frail legs flail as she leaps from the branches Crouching, her shoes slip on the soft snow Fourteen years erased in an evening Crawling beneath her covers and choking back sobs Years from now they say she will recover They claim time heals all wounds She knows time cannot heal stopped hearts Cannot heal heavy clots on lungs Weeks pass, she traces chilled concrete Letters forming in the flakes beneath her fingers "Loving wife and mother" Grasps her knees, looks skyward, whispers, "Why?"