Moving--forward, I guess--
or on, anyway...
not sure if I'm ready to
see a new day...
wake up in a new place,
to four new walls,
with different windows,
different halls...
To let go of the room
that once was hers--
now gone two years,
my little girl.
So much of my life
this house has seen,
the crush and rebuilding
of my dreams....
I walk the hall where
once her chair
bumped and scraped--
I can still see there
the marks her wheelchair
made on the wall...
my fingers trace them
as I recall
the laughter and joy,
the love and the tears..
.
so hard to believe
she isn't still here...
and the scars in my heart
as the scars on the wall,
I cherish because of
the one they recall.
By Carol Ranney
Melinda (Mindi) Lee Osborne
October 2, 1971- July 6, 1998
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