Michelle

Written:
January 2020

With my daughter Michelle Rene Martin a year before her death

To commemorate the passing of my daughter, Michelle, who departed this sphere on October 24, 2018, I’m posting one of her favorite compositions.

Michelle was blessed with an extremely gentle nature and often expressed her heartfelt belief that “animals are better than people.” As a teenager, she’d take in friends’ ailing pets and nurse them back to health. Those of us who have lost a child know that it is the most heartbreaking experience a parent can endure.

I’ve posted this poem in Michelle’s memory.

Live A Dream

How sad it is to lose a dream

And not fly like a bird

To silence out a calling voice

So it is never heard

To never walk along a path

To never blaze a trail

How sad to sit alone instead

With no story to tell

How do we recognize when we

Just only fail ourselves

There is no one to come along

And fill our empty shelves

We must therefore look deep within

And see what it is there

Before we are to live a dream

That is only ours to share

by Michelle Martin