RIFKAH GOLDBERG

TO CRY OR NOT TO CRY "I cannot cry When I see the stone At the cemetery Tears do not come" "But I do cry When I talk to him In the cluttered kitchen And he is not there" "When I see him Filled with feeling Hold forth on video His pain now gone" "When I wake with fear Several times a night Reach into the next bed And he is not there" "When I no longer Hear his heavy tread On the too-narrow Pink-carpeted stairs" "When our Great-grandchildren Are born and now Can only be mine" "Part of me is gone And I cannot believe It lays under a stone" My mother said February 2002