Hollow Heart (A Poem For Dayle)
The
crackle of October leaves
The
faith of someone who believes
Remind
me of her courage and fears
As
we filled her car with mournful tears
The
blackness of the shaded chairs
White
reminders of the one who cares
Her
openness empowered change
All
the lives she touched to rearrange
Her
tidy desk and heart-to-hearts
The
way she knew all my broken parts
The
place she gave me to call my own
A
tennis club, my family from home
Flying
under her wing to rise again
Unsure
of myself and not knowing when
God
gives us all someone we can trust
Even
when losing them He knows we must
I’ll
miss her laugh most of all
Because
it lifted me through my deepest fall
