Song for Heidi

Note: I joined Prose three years ago. Since then I've been away. Within a year I lost my daughter, sister, and best friend. I wrote this for my daughter who battled drug addiction.

I tried to hold your heart safe.

Yet even loving hands can tire -

become careless -

fail to grasp

the imminent danger.

This is the truth of life.

We are none of us safe.

We rise, we fall, we break.

Yet, beauty lives in the cracks.

And love heals our mistakes.

We will remember

your kind heart

the beauty of your face.

For beauty unanchored

by memory - is nothing.

Kat Kennedy

(The last two lines are from another of my poems. Heidi loved those lines, so I wrote this around them for her memorial.)