There Are No Words...

We've lost two of our beloved family members within the past 3 months. And as a result are feeling quite numb. The grief is, at times, overwhelming. The sadness, all-consuming. We loved them with all of our hearts and will miss them immeasurably.

Kaehlyr
Fall 1995 - June 20th, 2009

Parker
January 1999 - March 30th, 2009

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There are so many things I want to say...
but cannot find the words...
W.H. Auden probably said it best.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

-- W. H. Auden