Poetry by Jennifer Olston

Beauty is upon me In the glow of my skin The flow of my hair The child within Beauty is all of me The words I speak Love I hold for you, My heart skips a beat Beauty is precious In fact, it is a treasure When you find it, Keep it, learn to appreciate it Beauty is all around In the eyes of a child In the sun that shines Even in a smile Beauty is to appreciate The good and the bad At the end of the day All things are so rad Beauty is in you, and in me If only we knew Open up the horizon To begin anew Beauty is, what was Yesterday, today, and tomorrow All the tender memories Make us feel loved, not befallen

In the midst of this agony Such deep pain and grief I weep so hard for you Even small steps Are too much to handle for me Living is hell for me Dead would end my agony My heart aches a thousand times If only I could look again into your eyes Out of sorrow I weep For the martyrdom of suffering I can’t keep living this lie It tears me up inside If only I could tell you A million times if I had the time To sit by your bedside And tell you over and over I love you, it is no lie And the day that death Kept us apart I tell you, it broke my heart I would gladly give up my life So you could live just one more time I embraced your lifeless body Kissed your forehead and stroked your arm Pleaded with you to open your eyes Please just one more time Please, please don’t die Without saying goodbye But you didn’t respond And your body was ice cold Nothing I said mattered anymore You were dead and gone Your heart had stopped beating You and I alone in this