M a r i e J o y
click on the butterfly for Marie Joy's story
mere thoughts and memories are all that's left
a mother's dream of glory and hope succumbed into oblivion
retracting faded photographs, trying to fix pages of paragraphs
incidentally, sorrow must be effaced, obliterated
enlightenment should seep through the heart of those that are left behind
joyful gleam should shine knowing God's angel is nearby
overcoming grief is a difficult endeavor
yet, life goes on and memory lives on
by O. Pestano Bautista
February 1998