11. CREATIVE HEARTWORK | Have you done anything special to memorialize your child? Maybe you got a tattoo or commissioned a piece of art to be created. Maybe you have a special piece of jewellery to remember them by or created a garden.
Some heartwork I have made to memorialize Charis include writing her name in the sand on beaches of faraway places that I visit, such as the one in my previous cover photo. It was challenging to try to write quick enough before her name got washed away by the waves. Her name in the sand was beautiful and fleeting, just like our Charis, but the memory of that scene lasts forever just like how Charis lives on in our hearts. It felt special to write her name, my love, in the sand. I never wrote Daryl's name in the sand, haha.
When it was our time research ways to conduct celebration of life/funeral/memorial for infants and children, we came across various beautiful child loss poems but none really quite described our story. Daryl thought we should write a poem just for Charis. Mind you we haven't written any poems since high school English class... but thank God the words just flowed out of our hearts. Below is the poem we wrote for Charis' celebration of life / memorial.
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