A Mother’s Vow to her children is the most
profound and divine link, she is above all a
protector, provider, and giver of endless love.
Living on Kentucky time, kairos time, and God’s time,
and the endurance of hellish hours in between, this prologue
of unceasing questionnaires, the filament of sorrow, just
one fracture of uncertainty returns this
recollection in rancorous guilt. The blasphemy of
Atropos for whom wreaked threadbare this grief, whose sever
of life sheared more lives than one. God may forgive though
a Mother sits patiently as the tempest that vents the carriage
of years between mother and son, the expanse of understanding
and unbound love ‘tween kindred souls. This inseparable yoke
memorializes this gilded chain, plaited mementos enumerate and
grace this union for all eternity. Just one song can cultivate
a thousand memories and one memory can effectively
canvas scenically season after season in mercurial symphony.
Yet, one picture can powerfully dispatch a lifetime of sempiternal
joy and agonizing melancholy. Just an afterthought to a loon, this
crazy life, this prying catharsis, to reach the spirits beyond that
which holds your child to all repressed memory, the dust collection
of mortal thoughts and the wake of an existential crisis, to understand
the cosmic question of why? Fate rarely doles out forgiveness and reprieves.
Anthony Craig was an extraordinary soul whose love for life
superseded every modicum of God, his light outshined every
glistening star in the celestial sphere, and his family is the prolific
element that bond Earth and Heaven. His love will rest in
vigilance until his family reunites in that perpetual garden where
eternal bliss grows the evergreen of happiness. Within the mortal
basket of hope lies the sacred breath of time and tears cloud and
constitute the shattered remains without you, always remember
Mom loves you.
(In remembrance of Anthony Craig Lawrence, the loving father of Allie Marie, and
son of Mona Fay and Bruce Lawrence, may he never be forgotten.)
- John Hardesty
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