ELEGY Poem: Echoes in Silence, by Maria Pimentel Cruz

Nighttime falls, I hear distant cries,
Memories of your precious life,
How I loved your midnight calls,
We danced in the moonlight to my chest.
Held tight.

You struggled to get into this world,
But you made it out in your own time,
Only to be taken too soon, eleven months later,
By a silent perpetrator.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome,
the taker of your breath as you slept.
Time to wake but not a peep,
I sensed your absence when my eyes first opened.
I picked you up but no longer were you there,
I wanted to close my eyes and find you,
How would I ever live without you?

You were taken away far too early,
Our future is stolen from us,
but death could not erase our past-
I refuse to give it the time we shared.
So, I lay down this sackcloth suit,
And I will spend the rest of my life.
Celebrating you.

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