Beauty, grace, this woman, child
Sought by death and then defiled
The youthful body with future dreams
Is now just dust or so it seems
I close my eyes and see her still
The child now gone, life's bitter pill
Was she so evil to be punished so
Her time so short barely time to know
In dreams alone I hear God laugh
A sacrifice is not a fatted calf
Life's counsel your passage to a distant shore
Sleep softly my dear, in peace shall you dwell
May death be your heaven
For life was your hell
For Kassy
When two who love are parted
And speak as friend to friend
Hold hands and sigh a little and
Know that it's the end
I will not cry my darling
Or say why this must be
The tears, the sighs, the anguish
Came later and to me
Help me Daddy, help me
Into the phone she cried
The cancer it consumes me
For already I have died
Though my heart still beats
And tears fall from my cheek
The fear it overwhelms me
And life is all I seek
Is this the end dear father
Or will I live again
Or into the void I travel
Eternity to spend
Jessica Roeder
