EULOGY FOR THE PREMATURE
The greatest grief
concerns us often with the smallest of beings.
The ifs and buts of life
play a distressing game with our minds.
Such a tiny child,
a small bundle,
barely launched into the world
but snatched from life,
What eulogy for the prematurely born
- and prematurely taken,
except that she warmed her way into our hearts
to leave an emptiness there in the making.