Cindy's Words

Cindy loved to write - she was so expressive. She wrote countless poems for my group TDKOL. There were times when there would be new poems each week for us to read from Cindy. As a group, we knew something was amiss when she stopped writing. The past few months she wrote less and less ~ I can remember group memebers asking her, "Cindy, have you been writing lately? We sure miss them!". Now, we are thankful to have what she's written in the past preserved on the forum. I was even able to send a poem to Cindy's mother ("To Be a Mother"), one that she never read before.

Here are a few that I've found on Lifemothers.com & from TDKOL - Note: If you'd like to share these poems, please do not copy and paste them onto other forums or websites, only post the links. Thank you!

♥ Cindy's post one year prior to her death, to the day: April 8, 2003

♥ A poem I wrote for Cindy last fall as she awaited her bi-yearly contact with her daughter's adoptive parents: Flight of the Heart

♥ Cindy's beautiful poem about connection to her daughter: Part of Me

♥ And her heartbreaking poem: No One's Home

♥ Another heartbreaking poem: I Wish

♥ Cindy's poem to her daughter's adoptive parents: Things I Wish They Knew

♥ Cindy's poem on motherhood: Time: to be a mother

♥ Cindy's poem about the circle of life: The Circle

"When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are ...It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart ...For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost."