The Needle

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Back and forth
Through the clothe of my family
Sowing together my mother's side to my father's
With the tears that it leaves behind

Using a cancer to take away my father's
Baby sister's oldest daughter
Not yet fourty- a mother of five
Children without a mother for all of time

The next day my mother calls
I hear the painin her voice
Telling me to sit down
He uses a car to take my aunt's young life

My mother's baby brother
Hurting from loosing his life long mate
Their marriage was over 20 years
But always a bride, and not just a wife

Death has woven together
Both sides of my heart
With the tears of my family
I can not stop the