Again – A Poem By Darlene Thorpe

Darlene with her son Jesse when he was a young boy

Again

By: Darlene Thorpe

 

I thought that I was in a point in my life that I did not take anything for granted

Until the night my youngest son was killed

I now realize that no matter how thankful and grateful we think we are we take the simplest things for granted

Tomorrow is not guaranteed and it does not matter where you live, who you are, or where you go

We cannot control what others will do or not do if they come into our lives

In a second everything can change and in that second we are left at the mercy of the goodness, the decentness, of others, of all those around us

We would like to think that most people are basically “good” but that is not so

And so, on the night my son was killed I was reminded of this as so many did nothing

I had taken for granted that I would see my son again that night

That I would hold my son in my arms again

Hear his voice, his laugh, hear him say “mom” again

That he would get to eat his favorite foods again

And I could tell him he needed to eat healthier again

That I would smell him, his hair, as he hugged me again

That I would wake him up and say I love you and he would say it back again…

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