Sara's Footprints
by Nancy Van De Vaarst
One night I had a dream.
I dreamed I was holding my little Sara Theresa.
As I looked down upon her precious face,
scenes of the life we were to have together flashed before me.
In each scene, I noticed how happy I was with Sara.
I watched Sara's life from taking her first step,
to walking down the aisle with her Daddy on her wedding day.
Before my eyes, I watched her laugh and play with her sisters
and grow to become a beautiful, young woman.
But I also noticed that as quickly as each scene appeared,
each faded almost immediately.
As the last scenes appeared,
I saw myself alone.
I looked down upon Sara's precious face again.
She was gone.
This really bothered me so I questioned Sara.
"Sara, I thought you would be with me forever,
but I never even got to know you.
By the last scene I was left alone.
I don't understand.
Why, if I loved you so much, would you leave me?"
Sara replied,
"My precious Mommy...
I love you and I would never, never leave you.
When you saw yourself alone,
it was then that I moved into your heart
where I will live forever, with you." |
My mother died exactly one month after I miscarried Sara. My mother always liked the Footprints poem. One day it just came to me to revise the words to make this beautiful story apply to Sara. You may contact Nancy at vandevaa@us.ibm.com.
© August 1999 by Nancy Van De Vaarst. The author of this work has given full permission for its distribution, electronic or otherwise, as long as the entire work is presented in full, the author information from the bottom of the work is retained, and this copyright and permission is retained.
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