Gone Forever

This is a poem I wrote on July 29, 2008. I wrote it in the wake of learning of the sudden death of tow friends, a mother and daughter who had both been very active in my older daughter's Girl Scout troop. The girl was a good friend of my daughter's, and her friend's death still affects her after all these years. This poem specifically touches on when my husband and I had to tell our then 10-year-old daughter that her friend had died.


Early morning innocence
Shattered into a million pieces
By just one sentence


"They're gone," was the gist of it
It meant that they were gone forever
They would not return


Break the news to my child
One of her friends would never return
She's gone forever