To my sister in sorrow

For Davida

To my sister in sorrow:
Too well did I understand
The look in your haunted eyes;
Pain and disallusionment.
You fought a losing battle,
And lost.
And died.
I will shed for you the tears
Of a lifetime you will never live.
The tears you will never more shed.
Madonna of suffering,
Wrapped in the cold shroud of death.
I wept with you.
I weep for you.
For I still can.
The tide of tears has turned.
Sleep, my sister,
And weep no more.

(Written on her tombstone)
-Julianna (2005)

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