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Your Stained Glass Window
I have watched this child
Forever
Even when my tired eyes and my weak heart
Couldn’t get me out of my bed
And even when I was dead
And gone
I watched you for the sky
It hurt to watch you cry so much
But I knew I couldn’t do anything for you
You sit in your window
Your stained glass window
Watching the stars pass
You mind is beginning to fog
They say you're thinking too much
But you know
That this feeling
Isn’t right
The pain of your loveless life begins to nip at your heels
You see
There
Waiting at your bedside
The gleaming eyes of death
He sits and whispers and feeds ideas into your head
And you
You listen to those painful whispers
You think that no one loves you
And think they never will
No one will miss you
But before you let the hands of death catch you
Another pair of hands catch you
As the warm hands pull you up you hear sirens and whimpering cries
That was about 10 years ago
Now You sit in your window
Your stained glass window
Looking for him
He likes your cooking which makes you happy
You have finally found someone who likes you
These tiny capsules keep you happy for now
But even a whole bottle of those tiny little capsules
Can’t keep you happy forever
But you keep in deaths whispers in the back of your head
Locked away behind that little door
That nothing
Nothing
Can get out for that door
Or so you thought
That night seemed long and your eyes
Heavy
He laughs at on what on TV
You crawl form your mind space
But by the time your back
Out of your mind
He is gone
The floor falls from under you
You can feel your precious little capsules failing
You try to hold your little door closed
Keep your string tight around the finger
That keeps your brain held together
As you turn to look
He appears next to you
And you can feel the door and the string disappear
Death’s whispers beginning to crawl through your lips
And your brain to begins to fall apart
You can’t see his face through your clouded eyes
You can’t hear his voice through your screams and cries
But you can feel his warm hands and tears fall around you
And once your voice was gone
You could hear his sobs and whispers of sweet things
You
For the first time in the many painful years of your life
You could not hear death’s whispers
Or his cold fingers clawing at you
You felt happy
Without your tiny capsules
Even though you were crying
That was 6 years ago
You sit in the window
The stained glass window
That is no longer yours
And you see your child
Your light
And the one who held you tight and cried that night
Laughing and loving the light that hits your warm hands
You see their smiles and you feel warm and happy
A happiness that your tiny capsules could not give you
I sit and watch you be happy with that little light of yours
The person who can give you more than I ever could
And even when you left this place and went far off
I still sat at my place in the sky and waited for you to come home
I watched as the people who loved you most
Created a colorful home for you to return to
And you did
You came back to the place you had lived your entire life
And you were happy
Happier than I could I ever make you
So I pray for you in your stained glass window
that those whispers of death don’t come back to you
And that those tiny capsules
Are not the only thing that make you smile like that
That you will never think
Your mother didn’t love you
And that you can live long and healthy
So that those years of pain and loneliness
Are nothing more than a nightmare
I pray that you can look
Out of your stained glass window
For many more year to come
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I wrote a novel over the course of NANOWRIMO, and one of the character stemmed from this poem. In this poem his mother watches him from heaven, so to speak, as he goes through the walks of life and all its diffuculties.