Grief & Loss
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When the remembrance candle goes dark, the ritual ends but the daughter it honored does not disappear with the flame.
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In the quiet before the evening candle is lit, a mother prepares to hold love and grief in the same small flame.
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A short life does not make a daughter temporary; her name still belongs in the family, in the counting, and in every version of home.
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Eleven is an age full of ordinary things a mother should get to know; grief lives in never discovering which version of her daughter would have arrived there.
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October becomes more than a date: the beginning and ending of a daughter’s brief life, carried forever as both love and scar.
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A remembrance for Darcy and the stories, laughter, travel, kindness, and stubborn love of life that illness never managed to erase.
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Darcy knew a little boy was coming and would carry his name; that knowledge becomes one small piece of peace inside a cruel goodbye.
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Before goodbye arrived, Darcy got to hear the name Theodore Darcy Patrick and know a little boy would carry part of him forward.
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Before February took him, Darcy knew a little boy was coming and would carry his name into the future.
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He knew he could not swim—and jumped anyway. A poem about sacrifice, remembrance, and the life that continued because one cat chose another’s tomorrow.
