I Am Not Silenced
Kathleen Egan
[egankathy@hotmail.com]
Upon the ever-flowing waters
of my love for my children
I have cast my presents and letters
today they washed ashore in my mailbox
with an epistle from the social worker
"...the Department is not trying to prevent the children
from contacting you...the children still refuse communication with you...."
Go ahead keep trying some friends have said
Others ask why bother
For the same reason that people leave offerings at a grave site
or letters at the Vietnam Memorial
or messages in bottles
they want to forge a link with their dead even if no response is possible
my dead are still alive and deign to give no answer
but
I am not silenced!
I will continue to send the gifts and missives
and expect them to boomerang
because some day Edwin and Alisa may come to me and ask
Mom how hard did you try
and I will point to the driftwood as my answer
Poem © 2000 Kathleen Egan, all rights reserved
appears here by permission
this poem also appears at www.poetrymagazine.com and
www.ariga.com.
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